When you are through crying to the just-released Japanese Breakfast cover of Yoko Ono’s "Nobody Sees Me Like You Do," might I offer you a gently pulsing take on one of Elliott Smith's best-known soul-crushers to keep the saline flowing?

For its 30th anniversary, the Portland-and-Olympia-based record label Kill Rock Stars has been dripping out covers of its artists, by its artists. In December, one-time Chromatics front woman Ruth Radelet threw her contribution into the mix: a soaring take on Smith's "Twilight," off his posthumous LP From a Basement on the Hill. 

Radelet's version goes for small tweaks over a wholesale reimagining—it's no enormous leap from the original's cinematic strings to her ethereal synth beds. But where Smith's composition feels (intentionally) earthbound, Radelet allows her cover to soar: in place Smith's guitar-and-choked-up-vocals opening, Radelet begins at the piano, and sets her sights skyward.

Lyrically, the "Pale Blue Eyes" of it all ("I'm nice to you / I could make it through / That you're already somebody's baby") benefits from liberal dollops of reverb, and the whole thing is tailor-made for staring out a rain-soaked window, whenever you feel like getting around to that. 

Check out the full cover below, and below that, give PoMo's Songs of the Week playlist a spin and a save; it's updated every Friday. Also, if you would like to send me one million dollars for making it to the end of this column without a single Twilight joke, be my guest, spider monkey!