“Called Out In The Dark” by Snow Patrol

"Called Out in the Dark" was the lead single from Fallen Empires, Snow Patrol's sixth album, premiered by Zane Lowe on his Radio 1 show in July 2011 and released by Polydor on 2 September. Recorded in Topanga Canyon in Los Angeles with Jacknife Lee, who had worked on their previous three albums, it's the Northern Irish band heading for the dance floor: Gary Lightbody, who has always DJed, said dance music had long been part of their lives but never part of their music, until they loosened up this time.

Lee did far more than produce, playing guitar and keyboards, mixing it and recording it with Sam Bell, while Troy Van Leeuwen adds guitar. Lightbody wrote the words. It was shortlisted for the Meteor Choice Music Prize's Irish Song of the Year, and Norman Cook remixed it.

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