Background and release
Alexander Odden and Michael Parsberg of Pegboard Nerds initially sent a concept for the collaboration to Rob Swire and Gareth McGrillen of Knife Party,which Swire immediately recorded vocals for. Odden and Parsberg liked the vocals and flew to London for a week to work on the collaboration with Swire and McGrillen in the latter's studio. The song title comes from the main melody used in the song,which Odden and Parsberg described as a harp or middle eastern instrument. Odden briefly saved the melody as "Superharp",though he disliked the name and changed it to "Harpoon". [2]
On 9 May 2018,Swire announced a collaboration between Knife Party and Pegboard Nerds. In a Twitter post,Swire wrote that Odden and Parsberg "reminded me that house music is better when you use cool synths,and I taught them that dubstep just leads to ass-eating competitions." [3] [4] [5] Odden and Parsberg debuted the song at Dreamhack Austin 2018,featuring Swire's pitched-up vocals. [6] [7] [8]
It was the fourth and last song to be released as part of #NERDWEEK,after the previous release "Escape",a collaboration between Pegboard Nerds and Dutch electronic music producer Dion Timmer. [9] The song was released as part of Pegboard Nerd's sixth extended play titled Full Hearts released on 27 July 2018. It was the first track on the EP,which also includes four other songs. [10]
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