"Crawl" is the first commercially available single by New Zealand

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band

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, released in 2007 from their debut album, ''

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''. It stayed atop New Zealand's

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for seven weeks and was

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gold for selling over 5,000 copies in New Zealand. A music video directed by Olly Langridge was created for the song. In a 2009 interview with New Zealand news media site

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, vocalist Sean Cunningham said, "Believe it or not, when we were writing 'Crawl' we didn't know it was a catchy song."

Music video

A music video directed by Ollie Langridge was made for the song. In the video, a group of people, including

vocalists Sean Cunningham and Beth Campbell, suddenly collapse. As Cunningham and Campbell sing the song, they slowly crawl past all the people, who appear to be incapacitated by a forcefield. Toward the end of the video, the anomaly suddenly disappears, allowing everyone to stand and move again. The video ends when two mysterious men exit a car. New Zealand film and television website

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compared the video to ''

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'', referring to it as "moody".

Track listing

New Zealand CD single # "Crawl" # "Is This Real" # "Crawl" (video) # "Is This Real" (video)

Credits and personnel

Credits are lifted from the New Zealand CD single liner notes. Studios * Recorded and mixed at

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(Auckland, New Zealand) * Mastered at

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(New York City) Personnel * Atlas – writing **

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– production * Hank Lindermann – production * Neil Baldock – mixing, engineering *

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– mastering * Sam Nixon – photography

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

{{Authority control 2007 singles 2007 songs Atlas (band) songs Number-one singles in New Zealand