"Cirrus" | |
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Single by Bonobo | |
from the album The North Borders | |
Released | 2013 |
Genre | Instrumental |
Length | 5:49 [1] |
Label | Ninja Tune [2] |
Songwriter(s) | Bonobo [2] |
Producer(s) | Bonobo [2] |
Audio sample | |
"Cirrus" |
"Cirrus" is a 2013 instrumental performed, written and produced by British musician, producer and DJ Bonobo. Released as the first single from his fifth studio album The North Borders , the song did not chart but in 2014 the song was featured in a Vodafone advert. The song premiered on Giles Peterson's BBC Radio 6 show on 19 January 2013. It was released on 1 April 2013 worldwide and on 2 April 2013 in North America.
"Cirrus" was performed, written and produced by Bonobo. [2] The song contains complicated drum patterns and live instrumentation. [3]
The song was released as the first single from his fifth studio album The North Borders . [1] It premiered on Gilles Peterson's BBC Radio 6 show on 19 January 2013. [4] The track was released on 1 April 2013 worldwide and on 2 April 2013 in North America. [5] Although the song did not chart, the song was featured in a Vodafone advert in 2014. [6] The song has also appeared in ads for Google's DevArt initiative and on AMC's Halt and Catch Fire
The song has been met with positive critical reception. A writer for Fact magazine called the track "a twinkling slice of fairy-light house", noting it to be "delicate" while also containing a "slightly steelier edge" that deviates from his style. [7] Jason Grishkoff from Indie Shuffle found the song "pursuing the same sound" of his previous four albums, characterizing it as "absolutely perfect" for San Francisco rain. [8] Phillip Yung of Earmilk stated the track "immediately" gives the listener "a spacey organic feel" and found the slide bass during the middle to give it "much anticipated weight", [9] while Amy Heaton of Kaltblut magazine wrote the song was "the perfect soundtrack" to come out of hibernation to, calling it "one big loop of elation". [10]
A music video was created for the song by Cyriak on 24 January 2013. [11] The video manipulates footage from American Thrift, a public domain film from 1962 depicting American consumerism. [10] [12] [13] Cyriak borrowed inspiration from Zbigniew Rybczyński's film Tango, [14] and obtained the film through the Prelinger Archives through the Internet Archive, calling it "a goldmine for us video artists." [12] The video is 3:23 in length, and, as of June 2020 [update] , has been viewed over 15 million times on YouTube. [15]
Critical reception for the video has been positive; Kimber Streams of The Verge called it "beautifully surreal", [5] whereas Oli Kruscher of DropoutUK said that it "would slot smoothly into Monty Python's world [and] will take you on a mind-bending trip". [3] Andrew Tarantola of Gizmodo reckoned it would be "what doing acid with the Beav would be like". [16]
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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United Kingdom (BPI) [17] | Silver | 200,000‡ |
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. |
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