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Album: Surrender (2015)
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Songfacts®:

  • The funkiest track that Hurts has released to date, the song is a collaboration with producer Ariel Rechtshaid, who has previously worked with the likes of Vampire Weekend, Haim and Charli XCX.
  • The song's Dawn Shadforth-directed music video finds vocalist Theo Hutchcraft pulling some moves in the discotheque. Commenting on the song and clip, Hurts said: "It's a tribute to the untimely death waltz of the Great British Nightclub."

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