Lonely Hunter

Album: What Went Down (2015)
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  • Frontman Yannis Philippakis told NME the story of this song: "It was written in this studio in Hackney, and originally the music was sort of hip-hop, kind of grime-y," he said.

    "['Lonely Hunter'] didn't have lyrics for a long time – I was searching for a lyrical identity for the song, then I was basically crushed on the day after New Year's Day, and went up the Oxford studio, which was when these lyrics about a new dawn, a new year, came out of it."

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