Chastity Belt and 764-Hero play the same song, recorded 27 years apart by the two bands from the Pacific North West.

This is a clever idea: a split single with one band’s original song paired with another band’s take on the same tune. Not sure I’ve come across that before.

The song in question is called Loaded Painted Red and is apparently a much loved number by a much loved Seattle band called 764-Hero. I guess you need to come from the Pacific North West to know them.

They recorded it back in 1998, when it was labelled “emo”, and the first version you hear is a brand new cover by fellow Seattle band Chastity Belt, whom I do know and like.

Both versions are mesmerisingly enjoyable, jangling and reverberating in slightly different ways that I’m told characterise the indie sound of the untamed north-western corner of America.

Chastity Belt formed in the wonderfully named Walla Walla in Washington State in 2010 and consist of vocalist/guitarist Julia Shapiro, bassist Annie Truscott, drummer Gretchen Grimm, and guitarist Lydia Lund.

Blending humour and feminism, their debut album No Regerts (an intentional misspelling, like a botched tattoo) was promoted by press photos of Shapiro wearing a chastity belt made of raw steak.

Fifteen years earlier, 764-Hero formed in Seattle, initially as a duo of John Atkins on guitars, keyboards and vocals, and Polly Johnson-Dickinson on drums.

Various bass guitarists joined and left before they split up in 2002, reuniting briefly on a couple of occasions since then. Their band name is the phone number for carpool lane violators in Washington.