“Hawaiian Air” by Friendly Fires

"Hawaiian Air" was the second single from Pala, the 2011 second album by British alternative dance band Friendly Fires, a record named after the utopian island in Aldous Huxley's final novel, Island. Ed MacFarlane, Edward Gibson and Jack Savidge wrote it together, and it's MacFarlane's production: he sings and plays bass, xylophone and synthesizer, while Savidge handles drums, percussion, piano, vibraphone and more synth, and Gibson plays guitar. Tom Elmhirst mixed it, with Ben Baptie assisting.

The video was shot in southern Spain that May, the single reached 92 in the UK, and the song later turned up on the soundtrack of the 2012 racing game Forza Horizon, alongside "Hurting".

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.