White Diamonds

Album: Friendly Fires (2008)
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Songfacts®:

  • Lead singer Ed Macfarlane told Drowned In Sound that this track was influenced by German electronic music record label Kompakt records "and their off-kilter "schaffle" compilations." He added: "It was always our intention to write something that incorporated this kind of rhythm without sounding like a Gary Glitter hit."
  • The chorus bass line is played on a Stylophone, which is a very small synthesizer played with a stylus pen that is tapped on the keyboard.

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