“Trembling Hands” by The Temper Trap

"Trembling Hands" sits third on The Temper Trap, the Australian indie rockers' self-titled second album, and it went out in May 2012 as the record's second single after "Need Your Love", dropped the week before the album itself to build anticipation. It got an extra push when promos for episodes 12 and 13 of Offspring's third series used it.

Dougy Mandagi wrote the words, the band shares the writing credit, and Tony Hoffer produced and mixed it, with Todd Burke engineering. For the theory-minded, it cycles through C, G minor seventh, D minor and A minor and sits in A Phrygian, which goes some way toward explaining the unsettled, shadowy pull under its big indie-rock sweep.

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