Songfacts®:

• Vance Joy first met his wife, Selen Us, while exploring Barcelona's Gothic Quarter in 2019. "Divine Feelings" is inspired by that experience: the euphoric rush when an encounter with someone significant shifts from casual to life-altering.
• The opening verse takes us straight into Barcelona's Gothic Quarter. Joy sings about "swimming through a sea of people," which is what the Gothic Quarter feels like on a summer evening: bodies, voices, and the occasional accordion all coming at you at once. Then comes the instant spark combined with wine-fueled conversation and physical closeness. "Hard to describe but it feels like floating," he sings.
• Vance Joy wrote "Divine Feelings" with longtime collaborator Dave Bassett. To capture that feeling of falling hard and fast for Selen, they traveled back to Barcelona, channeling the euphoria and grandeur of recognizing a life-changing connection.
• Released September 3, 2025, "Divine Feelings" was Joy's first solo material since his 2022 album In Our Own Sweet Time. It arrived paired with another track, "Fascination In The Dark."
• Produced by Dave Bassett, the track is built to feel epic and grand, with a cinematic, soaring arrangement. An acoustic version was released in December 2025 with the song stripped back to guitar and vocal to emphasize the emotional intensity beneath the production.
• The video, directed by W.A.M. Bleakley, is a modern Bonnie-and-Clyde saga in the Australian outback, starring Erana James and Tom Wilson. There are fugitives, dusty highways and law enforcement in hot pursuit.
  
  Bleakley filmed it in Mount Isa and Cloncurry, Queensland. "Not only do they have a desert-Americana vibe, they also offered us consistent weather that had a summer feel to it," he said of the location. "Generally, not much filming happens in either of these towns, so we were a bit of a novelty and locals really embraced us. Everything we asked for (locations, vehicles etc) we got a 'yes' - whereas in the city you often get a lot of 'no's.'"
• The video serves as a prelude to the "Fascination in the Dark" clip, which picks up the narrative from the couple's perspective as they're on the run, dancing around campfires and causing chaos in remote locations.