Bruiser is the third studio album by English band

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. It was released in 2011 and was produced and mixed by

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. "Everybody's Under Your Spell" had previously been released as the lead track of the band's ''Kusama'' EP from 2010, and "Surrender" and "Don't Wait" were released as singles with accompanying music videos. "Surrender" is featured in the soundtrack of the 2012 video game

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, on the in-game radio station "Horizon Rocks".

Track listing

Critical reception

According to

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, ''Bruiser'' received generally favourable reviews from critics.

Personnel

The Duke Spirit *Liela Moss - vocals, piano, harmonica, percussion *Luke Ford - guitar, piano, organ *Olly Betts - drums, percussion, piano, organ, glockenspiel, guitar *Toby Butler - guitar, bass, organ, piano *Marc Sallis - bass Additional musicians *Andrew Scheps - organ on "Villain" * Rich File -

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on "Surrender" Additional technical personnel *Andrew Scheps - production, mixing *Rich File - production on "Procession", "Surrender", "De Lux" and "Running Fire" *Ian Davenport - Oxford session engineering *

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- mixing on "Procession" *Catherine Marks - mixing on "Bodies"

References

The Duke Spirit albums 2011 albums {{2010s-rock-album-stub