"Surrender Your Love" is a song recorded by British

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group Nightcrawlers, released in May 1995 as the second

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from their only album, ''

Lets Push It ''Lets Push It'' is the debut album by Scottish house music project Nightcrawlers, featuring vocalist John Reid. It was released in 1995. The album includes two singles which reached the UK top 10: "Push the Feeling On" and " Surrender Your Love ...

'' (1995). Produced by American DJ and record producer MK, the song is co-written by him with John Reid and was released shortly after the previous single, "

Push the Feeling On "Push the Feeling On" is a House music, house song by the Scottish music group Nightcrawlers (band), Nightcrawlers and American DJ Marc Kinchen (MK). The original version released in 1992 was also partially disco and acid jazz-influenced and was ...

" (in France, it entered the top-50 only three weeks after "Push the Feeling On"). It became a hit in various countries, such as the UK, Finland, France and the Netherlands, where it reached the top 10. On the

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, it peaked at number 19 in June 1995. Outside Europe, the song was successful in Israel, peaking at number eight.

Composition

"Surrender Your Love" is very similar in sound to "

" (structure, house music sonorities, vocals), and sees singer Reid returning to a more traditional verse-chorus construction. The chorus is made out of editing syllables from the actual verses, and goes like "(Sa)-ying We Have Got/Feeling/..ying We Have/Wanna Stay". This is the typical remixing style of MK.

Critical reception

John Bush from

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described "Surrender Your Love" as a

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hit. In his weekly UK chart commentary,

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wrote, "The new single has more of a song structure than the last hit, owing to the presence of vocalist John Reid on the track. Another Top 3 hit could well be on the cards." Pan-European magazine ''

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'' commented, "The beat goes on, but no longer on

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. On their

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push the feeling a little further on." A reviewer from ''

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'' gave the track three out of five, adding that it "retains the familiar elements of its predecessor though this is a less striking re-invention." Brad Beatnik from the '' RM'' Dance Update gave it four out of five, writing, "Just when we've worked out the lyrics for the last hit, along comes another brainteaser. This is very much in the same mould with MK on hand again to cut up the vocal and add the inimitably simple keyboard stabs and rumbling organ and bass. This one-sided promo is equally catchy and there's no reason why it shouldn't go the same way as "Push the Feeling On"." Another editor,

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, noted the "more coherently whined than "Push the Feeling On" but similarly nagged, honked and burbled striding 122.5bpm MK Club and Dub Mixes, co-created right from scratch by Marc Kinchen this time".

Music video

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was produced to promote the single. It was later published by

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on September 1, 2014, and had generated more than 1.8 million views as of January 2023.

Track listings

* CD single # "Surrender Your Love" (MK radio edit) — 3:51 # "Surrender Your Love" (MK dub mix) — 6:06 * CD maxi # "Surrender Your Love" (MK radio edit) — 3:48 # "Surrender Your Love" (MK club mix) — 8:24 # "Surrender Your Love" (Wand's Crunchy nut mix) — 8:52 # "Surrender Your Love" (MK dub mix) — 6:04 # "Surrender Your Love" (Wand's Sugar puff mix) — 4:17

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

{{Reflist 1995 singles 1996 singles 1995 songs Nightcrawlers (band) songs Songs written by Marc Kinchen