Song · Everything Everything
“Distant Past” by Everything Everything
From the album Get to Heaven (2015)
“Distant Past” by Everything Everything appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations in 2016. It was first released in 2015 on the album Get to Heaven. Its best result is #94 on the WEQX Top 102.7 of 2016. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #406 alternative song of 2016.
Everything Everything opened the campaign for their third album, Get to Heaven, with "Distant Past", which Sony released in Britain in February 2015: a wired, restless piece of indie pop with the weight of the world on its shoulders. Stuart Price produced it, and Jonathan Higgs, Jeremy Pritchard, Michael Spearman and Alex Robertshaw wrote it together. Like much of the album, it chews over the events of 2014, and Higgs, the band's chief songwriter, framed it as a song about history repeating itself.
The rollout was a slow-drip tease: for two weeks the band posted lyric lines from the new album on Facebook and Twitter, finishing with one from this song, and that same day Zane Lowe premiered it on BBC Radio 1 as his Hottest Record in the World. It crept to 88 on the UK singles chart and turned up in FIFA 16.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 96 | CD101 Columbus, OH | CD101 Top 102.5 Songs of 2016 | 103 |
| 2016 | 94 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2016 | 103 |
Comments
Log in or create a free account to join the conversation about "Distant Past" by Everything Everything.
No comments yet. Be the first to share your thoughts.