Songfacts®:

• This defiant track about being underdogs is the closing track of Shed Seven's sixth album, A Matter Of Time. The album title comes from one of this song's lyrics:
  
  We're thrown away
  On a rising tide
  We're thrown away
  It's just a matter of time
• The track features vocals by The Libertines frontman Peter Doherty. He sang his parts remotely because he lives in France. "It's a song about being outsiders, which in some ways could be the Sheds or the Libertines," explained Shed Seven frontman Rick Witter to The Sun, "so that gives it an extra edge."
• The collaboration came about when Shed Seven played the Bingley festival in summer 2022 alongside the Libertines, and Doherty was watching their set and singing along.
  
  "After we'd finished our gig, I went over and he was telling me that in the '90s – pre-Libertines – he'd sit on his bed with his guitar and learn Shed Seven songs, which I thought was pretty cool," Witter told NME. "I just said, 'Look we've got this song, we've got another couple of guests on our record, we might as well throw the boat out here, would you fancy jumping on?' And he said, 'I would absolutely love to.'"
• A Matter Of Time was born when Witter and Shed Seven guitarist and pianist Paul Banks began writing songs in March 2022. They hooked up with Killing Joke and The Verve producer Youth in his studio on the Sierra Nevada mountain near Granada, Spain.
  
  "We spent three weeks halfway up a mountain with one vehicle which Youth owned, so we were kind of trapped, which is actually a positive thing as there were literally no distractions," Witter told The Sun. "We recorded a song a day so it had a real live feel to it which was exciting, and I think that really comes across throughout the album."
• Released on January 5, 2024, through Cooking Vinyl Limited, A Matter Of Time was Shed Seven's first UK #1 album. The five-piece broke the record for the longest gap between their debut album and first #1 album with 26 years, 3 months between their 1994 debut Change Giver and A Matter of Time landing at the summit.