Up All Night

Album: Superabundance (2008)
Charted: 45
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Songfacts®:

  • Bassist Thomas Dartnell quipped to Mojo magazine April 2008 about this song: "If it gets popular in indie discos, they'll be dancing to a song that's about how much we hate indie discos."
  • Guitarist Henry Dartnell added about the band's songwriting process: "I watched that awful woman Verity Sharp, who does the Culture Show, talking about Sigur Ros, and how they make up words to fit the rhythm of the songs. Well that's also what we do but we actually bother to write some words afterwards. I like Brian Eno or The Fall, people who observe these passing things, these bleak images. That's why we don't do chirpy songs."

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