"The Spoils" is a single by British group

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, released on 29 July 2016. The title song features

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singer-songwriter

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, in what is her third collaboration with the band, after "Paradise Circus" from the album ''

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'' (2010), and the non-album single " Four Walls" (2011). The b-side, "Come Near Me," features British musician Ghostpoet. A music video for the second song "Come Near Me", directed by Ed Morris and featuring Kosovan actress Arta Dobroshi, was released the same day as the single. The videoclip for "The Spoils", featuring Cate Blanchett and directed by Australian director

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, was released on 9 August 2016.

Track listing

Personnel

Musicians *

Grant Marshall Grant W. Marshall (born June 9, 1973) is a Canadian former ice hockey right winger who currently works on behalf of the Devils Alumni Association. He played for the Dallas Stars, Columbus Blue Jackets and New Jersey Devils of the NHL. He last p ...

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composition Composition or Compositions may refer to: Arts and literature *Composition (dance), practice and teaching of choreography *Composition (language), in literature and rhetoric, producing a work in spoken tradition and written discourse, to include v ...

production Production may refer to: Economics and business * Production (economics) * Production, the act of manufacturing goods * Production, in the outline of industrial organization, the act of making products (goods and services) * Production as a stati ...

, programming, recording engineer *Stew Jackson – composition, production, programming, recording engineer,

electric Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter that has a property of electric charge. Electricity is related to magnetism, both being part of the phenomenon of electromagnetism, as described by ...

and

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

s, keyboards, synthesizer *

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lyricist A lyricist is a songwriter who writes lyrics (the spoken words), as opposed to a composer, who writes the song's music which may include but not limited to the melody, harmony, arrangement and accompaniment. Royalties A lyricist's incom ...

vocalist Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

(track 1) * Ghostpoet – lyricist, vocalist (track 2) *Elijah Ford –

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

, organ (track 1) * Dan Jones – composition, string arranger and conductor (track 1) *Louis Lewis-Smith – banjo (track 2) *Andy Lowe –

double bass The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox additions such as the octobass). Similar i ...

(track 1) Technical *Iván Bello – assistant recording engineer *Bruno Ellingham – mixing *Roberto Morlán Gómez – orchestral recording engineer *Victor Vazquez – assistant recording engineer *Tim Young – mastering engineer

Charts

References

External links

"The Spoils" videoclip on YouTube"Come Near Me" videoclip on YouTube
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