"Cough Cough" is a song from

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. The track was released in the

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on 14 October 2012 as the

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from the band's second studio album, ''

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'' (2013).

Reception

Critical reception

Tom Howard of ''

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'' praised the track, commenting "''Yeah… so… um… wait a second'' go Everything Everything like the shy and polite young chaps they are. But then they break into a Dirty-Projectors-crossed with-Destiny’s-Child thing that makes you wish they'd go on a two-year hiatus and make comebacks all the bloody time. Suddenly they sound like saviours of music". "Cough Cough" was also met with positive reception from Doron Davidson-Vidavski of ''Londonist'', who noted it as a "manic and wonderful track

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highlights all that is unique about the quartet: choppy song structures, hectic vocals and hooksome melodies." The song reached #100 on Triple J Hottest 100 of 2012.

Chart performance

For the chart week dated 27 October 2012, "Cough Cough" debuted at number thirty-seven on the

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—marking the band's first top forty entry—beating previous highest-charting single "

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" (#121, 2010). The following week, "Cough Cough" fell twenty-two places to number fifty-nine; marking its second and final week within the top one hundred.

Track listing

Charts

Credits and personnel

;Recording and mixing *Recorded at RAK Studios,

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; Angelic Studios, Halse; Muttley Ranch, London; Jonathan's Flat,

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; mixed at Muttley Ranch, London. ;Personnel *

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- Jonathan Higgs *

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- David Kosten, Everything Everything *

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- Mo Hauseler, Tom A.D. Fuller, David Kosten *Assistant Engineering - Mike Horner, Pete Prokopiw * Mixing - David Kosten *Mastering - John Davis (at Metropolis Mastering) * Instrumenting - Jonathan Higgs, Jeremy Pritchard, Alex Robertshaw, Michael Spearman *Coughing - Mike Carswell, David Kosten Credits adapted from the liner notes of ''Arc'', RCA Records, UMP.

Release history

References

{{authority control 2012 songs 2012 singles Everything Everything songs Songs written by Jonathan Higgs RCA Records singles