Starsailor - Four To The Floor
Song
"Four to the Floor" is a hit single by the British band Starsailor. The song was released as the third and final single from the band's second album Silence Is Easy and became a major hit, peaking a number in France and Wallonia, number five in Australia and number 24 in the United Kingdom.
Furthermore, "Four to the Floor (Thin White Duke Remix)" was ranked number 70 on Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2004 in Australia. As of July 2014, it was the 84th best-selling single of the 21st century in France, with 333,000 units sold.
Music video
There are two different videos for "Four to the Floor." In the first one, the band played in a scenario accompanied by the members of a symphonic orchestra appearing and disappearing according to the development of the song and the instruments.
The band seen as a graffito.
Second one, which uses the Thin White Duke remix of the song, features a genderless little person of unknown age in a hooded winter jacket spray-painting graffiti on public walls in or near the city of London. The band members of Starsailor are depicted as animated graffiti whilst playing the title song throughout.
At the end of the video the faceless, anonymous elfin creature is caught while standing on a bridge and shaken down by the police. One of the scenes in the video can be seen as the art cover for the Hard-Fi single Hard to Beat.
In Australia, this video was also set to the album version/radio edit of the song.
The video also shows the images of famous Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara and Ben Byrne wears a T-shirt with the word "socialism" though there is not a clear connection between those images and the concept of the video.
Four to the Floor è un singolo del gruppo musicale inglese Starsailor, pubblicato nel 2004 ed estratto dall'album Silence Is Easy.
Album
Silence Is Easy è il secondo album in studio del gruppo musicale indie rock inglese Starsailor, pubblicato nel 2003.
Copertina
La copertina dell'album è un omaggio a quella dell'album Heaven Up Here degli Echo & the Bunnymen (1981).
Artist
Starsailor are an English post-Britpop band, formed in 2000. Since its formation the band has included guitarist and vocalist James Walsh, drummer Ben Byrne, bassist James Stelfox and keyboardist Barry Westhead.
After the release of their fourth album All the Plans (2009), the band entered into extended hiatus until 2014, during which they were involved in individual projects.
Starsailor announced their reunion on 23 May 2014 and began performing worldwide. Good Souls: The Greatest Hits was released in September 2015, and featured two new songs. A fifth studio album All This Life was released in 2017.
Gli Starsailor sono una band alternative rock - britpop britannica proveniente da Chorley (Inghilterra) formatasi nel 2000. Dalla sua formazione la band ha incluso il chitarrista e cantante James Walsh, il batterista Ben Byrne, il bassista James ‘Stel’ Stelfox e il tastierista Barry Westhead.
Dopo l'uscita del loro quarto album All the Plans (2009), la band è entrata in una pausa prolungata fino al 2014, durante la quale sono stati coinvolti in progetti individuali.
Gli Starsailor hanno annunciato la loro re-unione il 23 maggio 2014 e hanno iniziato a esibirsi in tutto il mondo. Good Souls: The Greatest Hits è stato pubblicato a settembre 2015, poi hanno presentato due nuove canzoni. Un quinto album in studio All This Life è stato pubblicato nel 2017.
Il loro nome deriva dal titolo di uno degli album più famosi del cantautore Tim Buckley, padre dello scomparso Jeff. La band si ispira infatti musicalmente ai due, per i quali ha una vera e propria ammirazione, miscelando certe sonorità con il sound britannico con influenze che vanno dai The Beatles ai Coldplay, Blur e tutto il filone Britpop.