Marking just over a decade since David Bowie’s passing, Toronto’s Double Eyelid shares a tribute cover of “No Control.” Originally found on Bowie’s ‘Outside’ album, his 1995 return to working with Brian Eno, the song is reimagined for today’s goth and darkwave listeners. During this period, Bowie departed from previous works as he embraced the industrial sound of the ’90s, and later toured with Nine Inch Nails. The 2026 version of this classic deep cut blends a tense, low-end groove with a warm, layered sound that hints at Depeche Mode in the early ’90s, paired with an impassioned vocal performance.
Double Eyelid’s central member Ian Revell explains the background of the song: “I started listening to Bowie around 1993, and his work spoke to me so deeply that I dove head-first into everything he released, and found he had so many different sides. It was difficult to reconcile the bleakness of the Berlin trilogy with the warm and sunny vibes of the Bowie that was out in the world making ‘Black Tie White Noise.’ When ‘Outside’ came out a couple of years later, I was thrilled he was working with Eno again, and over the moon to see him play live with Nine Inch Nails. ‘Outside’ is still a challenging album, but it has aged remarkably well. “No Control” is a layered song that says a lot without revealing anything; covering it was entering into an enigma. It’s personal, it’s global, it’s all deranged, indeed!”
Double Eyelid is a songwriting-focused goth and darkwave art rock project with singer Ian Revell as its central and consistent member. Debuting in 2012 with the underground hit “Dead is Better,” the widely acclaimed first album ‘Seven Years’ was released in 2014, followed by the 2016 remix album ‘Broken Mirror’ featuring contributions from Psyche, Leæther Strip, nTTx, and Double Echo. In the years since, the project has made numerous live appearances, including goth and industrial festivals Mechanismus, Absolution, and Morecambe’s Bats in the Attic, alongside acts like Light Asylum, Empathy Test, Priest, and Cold in Berlin.
Single releases between 2020 and 2023 featured production work from Live Evil Productions and Adoration Destroyed’s Erik Gustafson. 2025 finally saw the release of a new long-form work, an ambitious retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Tell-Tale Heart.’ Double Eyelid is currently in studio-focused mode, and more releases are expected soon.