“We Run” by Strange Advance

"We Run" was one of two singles from 2WO that became hits in Canada, the other being "The Second That I Saw You"; the album, the second from new wave outfit Strange Advance, came out in February 1985. Drew Arnott wrote it alone and says it came straight out of the kind of dream that wakes you up sweating: he just set down what he'd seen.

Arnott remembers Ed Shaw adding a delay to one sound on the track, the touch that brought it to life for him, and he credits the strings to Michael Kamen and the mix to Scott Litt. The album leans hard on keyboards and synthesizers, a Fairlight, a Yamaha DX7 and a Jupiter 8 among them, and together with the band's first record it went gold in Canada. AllMusic's Tomas Mureika later called 2WO seriously overlooked.

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