2015 studio album
Surrender Released 9 October 2015 (2015-10-09 ) Genre Synth-pop [ 1] Length 33 :20 Label Columbia Producer
"Some Kind of Heaven" Released: 28 May 2015[ 2]
"Rolling Stone" Released: 17 July 2015[ 3]
"Lights" Released: 14 August 2015[ 4]
"Slow" Released: 11 September 2015[ 5]
"Wish" Released: 7 October 2015[ 6]
Surrender is the third studio album by English synth-pop duo Hurts . It was released on 9 October 2015 by Columbia Records . The album spawned the singles "Some Kind of Heaven", "Rolling Stone", "Lights", "Slow", and "Wish". Surrender debuted at number 12 on the UK Albums Chart , selling 5,636 copies in its first week.[ 16]
Title Writer(s) Producer(s) 1. "Surrender" Hurts 1:18 2. "Some Kind of Heaven" Quant 3:18 3. "Why" Quant 3:27 4. "Nothing Will Be Bigger than Us" 4:02 5. "Rolling Stone" Quant 3:41 6. "Lights" Rechtshaid 3:29 7. "Slow" Hutchcraft Anderson Mathieu Jomphe 3:29 8. "Kaleidoscope" Price 3:04 9. "Wings" Quant 3:45 10. "Wish" Hurts 3:31
Deluxe edition bonus tracks[ 17] Title Writer(s) Producer(s) 11. "Perfect Timing" Hurts 3:04 12. "Weight of the World" Quant 3:46 13. "Policewoman" Hutchcraft Anderson Martin Forslund 4:45
Japanese edition bonus tracks[ 18] Title Writer(s) Producer(s) 14. "S.O.S." Hutchcraft Anderson Hoffman 3:38 15. "Some Kind of Heaven" (Thin White Duke Remix) 5:38
Notes
Credits adapted from the liner notes of the deluxe edition of Surrender .[ 19]
Hurts
Hurts – production (tracks 1, 10, 11, 13)
Theo Hutchcraft – vocals (all tracks) ; programming (tracks 1–5, 7–13)
Adam Anderson – guitar, keyboards (tracks 1–5, 8–13) ; programming (tracks 1–5, 7–13) ; synthesiser (tracks 1–6, 8–13)
Additional personnel
Malin Abrahamsson – mixing engineering (tracks 1, 2, 9, 13)
Ken Berglund – engineering (tracks 2, 9)
Eric Boulanger – mastering engineering (tracks 1, 3–13)
Martin Forslund – engineering (tracks 2–5, 7, 9, 12, 13) ; production (track 13)
Lael Goldberg – bass guitar (tracks 8, 11)
Jennifer Götvall – mixing engineering (tracks 1, 2, 9, 13)
Matty Green – mixing engineering (tracks 1, 2, 9, 13)
Mathieu Jomphe – production, programming (track 7)
Jon von Letcher – guitar, programming (track 2)
Paulo Mendonça – bass guitar, guitar (track 3)
Stuart Price – guitar, keyboards, production, programming, synthesiser (tracks 4, 8)
Jonas Quant – production (tracks 2–5, 7, 9, 12)
Ariel Rechtshaid – engineering, production (track 6)
Emily Rumbles – mastering engineering (track 11)
Karianne Rundqvist – mixing engineering (tracks 1, 2, 9, 13)
Tina Sunnero – mixing engineering (tracks 1, 2, 9, 13)
Jack Tarrant – engineering (tracks 1–3, 10, 13)
Ursine Vulpine – strings (tracks 1, 2, 12)
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