“We Share The Same Skies” by The Cribs

"We Share the Same Skies" was the second and last single from Ignore the Ignorant, the Cribs' fourth album, which came out on Wichita in September 2009, and it's a standout from the band's four-piece era. Johnny Marr, the guitarist from the Smiths and Modest Mouse, had come aboard the year before, and he shares the writing credit with Gary, Ross and Ryan Jarman.

Nick Launay produced and mixed it at Seedy Underbelly Studio in Laurel Canyon, with some extra polish added at British Grove in London. Gary brings a Hammond organ into the mix, and the whole thing has a big-hearted, skyward lift. It found a second life without the vocals, too: an instrumental version was a fixture on Match of the Day 2 for several years, slotted between the previous day's highlights.

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