Distant Past (song)

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"Distant Past"
Single by Everything Everything
from the album Get to Heaven
Released	18 February 2015
Recorded	2014
Genre	Art pop
Length	3:41
Label	RCA Victor
Songwriter(s)	Jonathan Higgs Jeremy Pritchard Michael Spearman Alex Robertshaw
Producer(s)	Stuart Price Everything Everything
Everything Everything singles chronology
"Don't Try" (2013) "Distant Past" (2015) "Regret" (2015)

"Distant Past" is a song recorded by British indie pop band Everything Everything. The track was released in the United Kingdom by Sony on 18 February 2015 as the lead single from the band's third studio album, Get to Heaven.^[1] It was written by band members Jonathan Higgs, Jeremy Pritchard, Michael Spearman, and Alex Robertshaw, and was produced by Stuart Price. The song, like much of the album it appears on, reflects on the events of 2014, with chief songwriter Higgs explaining that it "[looks] at the fact that history repeats itself".^[2]