Surrender (Hurts album)

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Surrender
Surrender cover.png
Studio album by
Released9 October 2015 (2015-10-09)
Genre Synth-pop [1]
Length33:20
Label Columbia
Producer
Hurts chronology
Exile
(2013)
Surrender
(2015)
Desire
(2017)
Singles from Surrender
  1. "Some Kind of Heaven"
    Released: 28 May 2015 [2]
  2. "Rolling Stone"
    Released: 17 July 2015 [3]
  3. "Lights"
    Released: 14 August 2015 [4]
  4. "Slow"
    Released: 11 September 2015 [5]
  5. "Wish"
    Released: 7 October 2015 [6]
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 61/100 [7]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [8]
Clash 4/10 [9]
DIY Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [10]
Drowned in Sound 4/10 [11]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
musicOMH Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [12]
NME 4/5 [13]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [14]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [15]

Surrender is the third studio album by English synth-pop duo Hurts. It was released on 9 October 2015 by Columbia Records. The album spawned the singles "Some Kind of Heaven", "Rolling Stone", "Lights", "Slow", and "Wish". Surrender debuted at number 12 on the UK Albums Chart, selling 5,636 copies in its first week. [16]

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Surrender" Hurts 1:18
2."Some Kind of Heaven"
Quant3:18
3."Why"
  • Hutchcraft
  • Anderson
  • Quant
Quant3:27
4."Nothing Will Be Bigger than Us"
  • Price
  • Quant
4:02
5."Rolling Stone"
  • Hutchcraft
  • Anderson
  • Quant
Quant3:41
6."Lights"
Rechtshaid3:29
7."Slow"
  • Hutchcraft
  • Anderson
  • Mathieu Jomphe
  • Billboard
  • Quant
3:29
8."Kaleidoscope"
  • Hutchcraft
  • Anderson
Price3:04
9."Wings"
  • Hutchcraft
  • Anderson
  • Quant
Quant3:45
10."Wish"
Hurts3:31
Deluxe edition bonus tracks [17]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
11."Perfect Timing"
Hurts3:04
12."Weight of the World"
Quant3:46
13."Policewoman"
  • Hutchcraft
  • Anderson
  • Martin Forslund
  • Hurts
  • Forslund
4:45
Japanese edition bonus tracks [18]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
14."S.O.S."
  • Hutchcraft
  • Anderson
  • Hoffman
 3:38
15."Some Kind of Heaven" (Thin White Duke Remix)
  • Hutchcraft
  • Anderson
  • Quant
  • Quant
  • Thin White Duke [a]
5:38

Notes

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of the deluxe edition of Surrender. [19]

Hurts

Additional personnel

Charts

Chart (2015-2016)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [20] 57
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [21] 14
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [22] 17
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [23] 39
Croatian Albums (HDU) [24] 46
Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI) [25] 12
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [26] 30
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [27] 13
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [28] 8
Irish Albums (IRMA) [29] 48
Italian Albums (FIMI) [30] 42
Japanese Albums (Oricon) [31] 122
Polish Albums (ZPAV) [32] 9
Scottish Albums (OCC) [33] 12
South Korean Albums (Gaon) [34] 97
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE) [35] 55
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [36] 47
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [37] 1
UK Albums (OCC) [38] 12

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