Surface To Air

Album: Marble Skies (2018)
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Songfacts®:

  • This features the vocals of Rebecca Taylor of Slow Club, rather than Django Django's normal singer Vincent Neff. Django Django producer and drummer David Maclean first met Rebecca Taylor back in 2012 at the SXSW festival where they bonded over a love for 90s hip hop and R'n'B. Synth player Tommy Grace told The Independent:

    "It just seemed like it had been written for her really. That was is it. Vinnie got booted off it, which he didn't mind."
  • Vincent Neff told HMV.com about the band's collaboration with Rebecca Taylor: "Dave has been working with her on new Self Esteem project and we'd come up with this track that had a melody that felt more feminine. I had a crack at singing it and it sounded okay, but not great, and we liked the idea of a feature and including something different. It locked in really well. We've always liked how Massive Attack and Primal Scream break up their albums with a female vocal and we wanted one."

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