| Are You the One? | |
| Cover: | Are_you_the_One_by_Presets.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | The Presets |
| Album: | Beams |
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| Prev Title: | Girl and the Sea |
| Prev Year: | 2004 |
| Next Title: | Down Down Down |
| Next Year: | 2006 |
"Are You the One?" is the lead single by Australian electronic dance music duo The Presets, from their debut studio album Beams. The single backed with non-album tracks "Truth and Lies" and "Midnight Boundary", as well a remix of "Girl and the Sea" by Cut Copy[1] was released on 24 October 2005. The song peaked at No. 68 on the ARIA singles charts.[2]
The UK version of the single (which appeared in early 2006) featured remixes by Simian Mobile Disco and Van She. A remix of the song by French DJ, Lifelike, was commissioned in 2008 to feature in a BMW 1 Series commercial in Australia.[3]
A review on Sputnik Music describes the song as "absolutely fanstastic, the best on the album, and the catchiest."[4] Dan Raper at Popmatters states "the beat is a semitone-rumble of distorted fuzz, the vocals, thrown off with the yelp of Green Velvet in “La La Land”, and the chorus is anthemic, defiant, addictive."[5] Marc Hogan at Pitchfork Media however states that it is tuneless and "all hoovering bass and forgettable lyrics".[6]
In 2015, the song was listed at number 41 in In the Mix's 100 Greatest Australian Dance Tracks of All Time with Nick Jarvis calling it "[an] aggressive dance-punk track custom made for sweaty basements" and said "[its] perfectly capturing the keen anticipation and anxiety of a loose night spent getting to know a potential new bedmate."[7]
The music video, which was directed by Moyes,[8] was nominated for Best Video at the 2006 ARIA Music Awards.[9]
| Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalogue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 23 October 2005 | Modular | Digital download | — |
| 24 October 2005 | CD, 7" Vinyl, 12" Vinyl | MODCDS024 |