Surrender Your Love
{{Short description|1995 single by Nightcrawlers}}
{{For|the Javine song|Surrender (Your Love)}}
{{Infobox song
| name = Surrender Your Love
| cover = Surrender_your_love.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Nightcrawlers featuring John Reid
| album = Lets Push It
| released = {{start date|1995|5|15|df=y}}{{cite magazine|title=New Releases: Singles|magazine=Music Week|page=39|date=13 May 1995}}
| recorded =
| studio =
| venue =
| genre =
| length = 3:48
| label =
- Final Vinyl{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/master/98189-The-Nightcrawlers-Featuring-John-Reid-Surrender-Your-Love|title=The Nightcrawlers featuring John Reid - Surrender Your Love|publisher=Discogs|accessdate=9 March 2024}}
- Arista
| writer =
| producer =
- John Reid
- Marc Kinchen
| prev_title = Push the Feeling On
| prev_year = 1992
| next_title = Don't Let the Feeling Go
| next_year = 1995
| misc = {{External music video|{{YouTube|P06Xa80nd8g|"Surrender Your Love"}}}}
}}
"Surrender Your Love" is a song recorded by British house music group Nightcrawlers, released in May 1995 by Final Vinyl and Arista Records as the second single from their only album, Lets Push It (1995). Produced by American DJ and record producer MK, the song is co-written by him with John Reid and was released shortly after the previous single, "Push the Feeling On". It became a hit in various countries, such as the UK, Finland, France and the Netherlands, where it reached the top 10. On the Eurochart Hot 100, it peaked at number 19 in June 1995. Outside Europe, the song was successful in Israel, peaking at number eight.
Composition
"Surrender Your Love" is very similar in sound to "Push the Feeling On" (structure, house music sonorities, vocals), and sees singer Reid returning to a more traditional verse-chorus construction. The chorus is made out of editing syllables from the actual verses, and goes like "(Sa)-ying We Have Got/Feeling/..ying We Have/Wanna Stay". This is the typical remixing style of MK.
Critical reception
John Bush from AllMusic described "Surrender Your Love" as a deep-house hit.{{cite web|first= John |last= Bush |title= Nightcrawlers – Let's Push It |publisher= AllMusic |date= |accessdate= 2 November 2020 |url= https://www.allmusic.com/album/lets-push-it-mw0000893929}} In his weekly UK chart commentary, James Masterton wrote, "The new single has more of a song structure than the last hit, owing to the presence of vocalist John Reid on the track. Another Top 3 hit could well be on the cards."{{cite web|last=Masterton|first=James|title=Week Ending May 27th 1995|url=https://chart-watch.uk/archives/1995/week-ending-may-27th-1995|website=Chart Watch UK|date=21 May 1995|accessdate=19 September 2021|author-link=James Masterton}} Simon Price from Melody Maker described it as "aciiiedic".{{cite magazine|first=Simon|last=Price|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/nothingelseon/53623993080/|title=Albums: In Praise Of Handbag|magazine=Melody Maker|date=13 January 1996|page=30|access-date=9 May 2024|author-link=Simon Price}} Pan-European magazine Music & Media commented, "The beat goes on, but no longer on FFRR. On their Arista label debut, the inventors of the "canned vibraphone" effect as further perfected by Robin S. push the feeling a little further on."{{cite magazine|url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/90s/1995/MM-1995-05-13.pdf|title=New Releases: Singles|magazine=Music & Media|volume=12|issue=19|date=13 May 1995|page=13|accessdate=28 January 2020}}
A reviewer from Music Week gave the track three out of five, adding that it "retains the familiar elements of its predecessor though this is a less striking re-invention."{{cite magazine|first= |last= |title= Reviews: Singles |magazine= Music Week |date= 6 May 1995 |page= 38 |accessdate= 9 May 2021 |url= https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1995/Music-Week-1995-05-06.pdf}} Brad Beatnik from the Record Mirror Dance Update gave it four out of five, writing, "Just when we've worked out the lyrics for the last hit, along comes another brainteaser. This is very much in the same mould with MK on hand again to cut up the vocal and add the inimitably simple keyboard stabs and rumbling organ and bass. This one-sided promo is equally catchy and there's no reason why it shouldn't go the same way as "Push the Feeling On"."{{cite magazine|first= Brad |last= Beatnik |title= Hot Vinyl |magazine= Music Week, in Record Mirror (Dance Update Supplemental Insert) |date= 22 April 1995 |page= 9 |accessdate= 6 May 2021 |url= https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1995/Music-Week-1995-04-22.pdf}} Another RM editor, James Hamilton, noted the "more coherently whined than "Push the Feeling On" but similarly nagged, honked and burbled striding 122.5bpm MK Club and Dub Mixes, co-created right from scratch by Marc Kinchen this time".{{cite magazine|first= James |last= Hamilton |title= Dj directory |magazine= Music Week, in Record Mirror (Dance Update Supplemental Insert) |date= 20 May 1995 |page= 11 |accessdate= 9 May 2021 |url= https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1995/Music-Week-1995-05-20.pdf |author-link= James Hamilton (DJ and journalist)}}
Music video
A music video was produced to promote the single. It was later made available by Vevo on YouTube in 2014, and had generated more than two million views as of early 2024.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P06Xa80nd8g|title=Nightcrawlers - Surrender Your Love (Video)|publisher=YouTube|date=1 September 2014|accessdate=9 March 2024}}
Track listings
- CD single
- "Surrender Your Love" (MK radio edit) — 3:51
- "Surrender Your Love" (MK dub mix) — 6:06
- CD maxi
- "Surrender Your Love" (MK radio edit) — 3:48
- "Surrender Your Love" (MK club mix) — 8:24
- "Surrender Your Love" (Wand's Crunchy nut mix) — 8:52
- "Surrender Your Love" (MK dub mix) — 6:04
- "Surrender Your Love" (Wand's Sugar puff mix) — 4:17
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