“Believer” by American Authors

"Believer" was the song that introduced American Authors, their debut single in 2013, first heard on the band's self-titled EP before it was folded into their first full-length, Oh, What a Life, the following year. Zac Barnett, Dave Rublin, Matt Sanchez and James Adam Shelley wrote it with producers Aaron Accetta and Shep Goodman, who also mixed it.

It's a big, open-hearted singalong with a string-band streak: Shelley adds banjo and mandolin to the guitars he shares with Barnett, who sings lead, while Sanchez and Rublin hold down drums and bass, and the whole crew, producers included, piles onto the backing vocals. It had a long shelf life, too, going to Triple-A and alternative stations in the spring of 2013, getting a second push in 2014 and picking up a Tiësto remix that summer.

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