“Magnets” by Disclosure featuring Lorde

"Magnets" brought Lorde into Disclosure's orbit on Caracal, the British electronic duo's second album, released in 2015 on Island. Howard and Guy Lawrence wrote it with the New Zealand singer, Disclosure produced and mixed it, and it's built from electronic beats, looping percussion, synths and tribal drums, with a dancehall sway and a trace of reggae running underneath. Lorde's lyric is about two lovers taking a risk on a romance they have been told, on moral grounds, that they cannot have, and she sings it cool and dark.

Critics praised the production and her delivery, and Rolling Stone put it on its year-end list. It became Disclosure's biggest hit in Australia and New Zealand, and in America it was the first of their singles to cross over to alternative and adult alternative radio. Ryan Hope directed the brooding video.

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