Cloud Nothings' cover of Coldplay's 'Clocks' is not your usual live lounge fare

Cloud Nothings have performed an exceedingly avant-garde cover of Coldplay's 'Clocks', essentially exploding the song as the studio fills with smoke.

"When we put Coldplay’s “Clocks” on this year’s Undercover list, we figured we’d get some pretty, emotive cover of the British group’s megahit," The A.V. Club wrote of its live lounge project.

"What we got, instead, was Cloud Nothings’ version of a sonic art project."

The cover starts with the familiar piano melody, before being thrown off by cat meows, cow moos and general mashing of keyboards.

At one point Led Zeppelin's 'Immigrant Song' is phased in, and I was pretty much on the floor by the time Scotsman John's 'Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)'.

As neon smoke envelops the room, the straight-faced band continue hammering out that piano melody, speaking to the lurking, low-level mania the Coldplay song induces when it shrieks from shop sound systems.

Cloud Nothings’ latest record, Life Without Sound, is out now on Carpark Records. It does not feature 'Clocks'.