{"id":17448,"date":"2015-11-16T08:10:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T07:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-98520-280723.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=17448"},"modified":"2015-11-16T08:10:12","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T07:10:12","slug":"watch-wings-by-hurts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eqmusicblog.com\/watch-wings-by-hurts\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch \u201cWings\u201d by Hurts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hurts\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWings<\/strong>\u201d is arguably to be seen as one of the more conservative efforts on \u201cSurrender\u201d, Hurts<\/strong> recently released third studio album.<\/p>\n

Am I a bit surprised that it\u2019s been released as a single though? Well in a nutshell\u2026\u2026.. not in the least! Since, \u201cSurrender\u201d<\/strong> is an album brimming with an overload of dramatic grandeur. When it comes to a melancholy gravitated pop ballad, it is almost seen as the only other stab at a switch in dynamics. <\/p>\n

Thus the heavy promo that launched us into the album release concentrated the listening audience\u2019s engagement towards the bolder cinematic overview. As we have now digested the mainstay of \u201cSurrender\u2019s\u201d<\/strong> grandiose cocktail of heady pop music theatre, is it a wonder that Hurts now reach the point of returning to the duo\u2019s familiar signature brand of bittersweet electro-pop?…… well no! <\/p>\n

Equally Hurts<\/strong> could have plumped for \u201cWish<\/strong>\u201d but they\u2019ve gone with \u201cSurrender\u2019s\u201d<\/strong> ballady companion \u201cWings\u201d<\/strong> instead.<\/p>\n

Theo<\/strong> knows his way around a big emotional raised ballad though, as time has attested. \u201cWings\u201d<\/strong> just gives Theo<\/strong> a slightly bigger platform to expand his lungs within and create a feature amongst Adam\u2019s<\/strong> boldy epic electronic odyssey that is \u201cSurrender\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWings\u201d<\/strong> deals with the topic of loosing your way and spiraling of control and in this circumstance serving as a follow-up to the dark disco-pop effort \u201cLights\u201d<\/strong> makes sense, even more so when we take into account that the visual is again directed by Dawn Shadforth<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

There is partying. There is kissy, kissy action. There is more Theo<\/strong> dancing Whoop! And man does Mr Hutchcraft<\/strong> look smokin\u2019 hot, rocking the guy liner.<\/p>\n

Perhaps I\u2019d not regard \u201cWings\u201d<\/strong> as one of the high-points of the album, but I can see how it\u2019s course has been plotted in terms of album campaign and that all makes some kind of sense to me anyways. <\/p>\n

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