This Dance

Album: Strange Creatures (2018)
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  • This eruptive banger was inspired by a wedding disco. Frontman Eoin Loveless said: "We went to a wedding, and like all weddings, we ended up on the dance floor, belting out '80s chart hits like we were on the barrier at a Slayer concert. Our arms and legs collided with each other's, with our friends and with complete strangers. Dance like nobody's watching and then hope they don't call the police."
  • Another inspiration was 1982 American science fiction horror film The Thing. Said Eoin Loveless: "I watched The Thing and thought about what would happen if Kurt Russell's MacReady spent the movie fighting off the extraterrestrial organisms with tunes instead of guns. I thought about all the nightclubs I'd never be allowed to go in or would be too scared to enter. I let it manifest into the lyrics of the song, like the monsters in The Thing."

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