2014Released
4:47

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Interesting facts and trivia about The Selfish Giant. By Songfacts®.

Natasha Khan of Bat for Lashes sings a ghostly echo of Albarn's voice on this narrative of a night spent at Dunoon in Scotland. Khan supported Albarn's band Blur in 2013 at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Ireland.

Dunoon used to be a nuclear submarine base. Albarn recalled to The Sun: "Blur did a gig there. It was a ghostly place, shrouded in melancholy and had seen better days."

The ballad references Argyll Street, Dunoon's main street.

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of The Selfish Giant.
A♯Key
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
114BPM

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Parlophone UK
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℗ 2014 Thirteen Limited under exclusive license to Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company.

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