The harp dates back to as early as 3500 B.C., which makes it a sufficiently ancient kind of instrument. Emilie Kahn, however, is a contemporary singer-songwriter and harpist whose cover of Taylor Swift’s “Style” is anything but traditional.

Kahn, along with her trusty harp, Ogden, make up the unconventional pair Emilie & Ogden. The partly inanimate duo are behind the strangely intoxicating performance featured above. In the video, Kahn’s unearthly voice transforms Swift’s catchy ’80s-tinged hit into a stinging and surreal ballad.

And that plucky harp proves that — despite the fact that it’s 5,500 years old — the ethereal music-maker never goes out of style.

Slay, Ogden, slay!

H/T Slate.

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