When I'm Small

Album: Eyelid Movies (2009)
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Songfacts®:

  • This track has had several media placements including being used in the trailer of the 2012 film Syrup and a commercial for Canon's 650D camera.
  • Portishead's Geoff Barrows accused Phantogram of stealing one of his beats for this song. He tweeted the duo with a link to the WhoSampled site showing an alleged sample on the track from the Jimi Entley Sound tune "Charlie's Theme," on which Barrows played drums. Phantogram denied the accusations stating their drums were not taken from the Entley record.

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