Rolling Stone

Album: Surrender (2015)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song finds Theo Hutchcraft singing a story of alcoholism and a terrible childhood. He told The Line Of Best Fit: "We like to tell tales and we've encountered a lot of people that could have been the protagonists in songs on our travels. Every paradise has a strange undercurrent, an undertone that's dark. In these places like LA, Ibiza, here [London], there are characters that have had a lot of trouble. People search it out. That's a tale for us."
  • Hurts teamed up with long-term collaborator, Jonas Quant, for this track. The producer also worked on the duo's Happiness and Exile albums. Hutchcraft told NME that Quant "brings darkness" to their songs.

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