Around the time Empires came out, we went through a brief spell of experimenting with guitar-based songs. Inevitably, some of these were more successful than others. The first has still to be released; Not a Million Miles went straight onto the album; and this one ended up taking a bit longer.
According to Simon, Lose Control was originally inspired by Simple Things by Dirty Vegas, but clearly went on quite a long journey before ending up how it did.
It's a song about losing control... obviously. I think at one point I was actually genuinely envious of people who run around naked on the streets at night. Now I think I could have put some more work into the lyrics, but I think I thought they worked pretty well at the time.
General verdict: quite good, but we've done better.
Hypernova are a synthpop duo from the UK, and here are some things which they have said:
