Strange Girl

Album: All At Once (2011)
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  • In his youth, ATE frontman Mikel Jollett was a fan of The Cure and this song is a nod to the UK gothic rock band. "You miss being 16 and loving anything that much, anything that makes you feel that overwhelmingly for a song, and it's like the most consistent feeling you have sometimes," he explained to UK newspaper The Independent.

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