| Iron Sky | |
| Cover: | Paolo Nutini Iron Sky.png |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Paolo Nutini |
| Album: | Caustic Love |
| Released: | 14 August 2014 |
| Recorded: | 2014 |
| Length: | 6:13 |
| Label: | Atlantic |
| Prev Title: | Let Me Down Easy |
| Prev Year: | 2014 |
| Next Title: | One Day |
| Next Year: | 2014 |
"Iron Sky" is a rock song by Scottish singer/songwriter Paolo Nutini from his third studio album Caustic Love, which was released in April 2014. The song was released as a single on Atlantic Records in August 2014. The song was a minor hit in the UK charts in the spring of 2014, reaching number 42 in April of that year, ahead of its official single release.[1]
The song was described as being a "slow burner." The Independent described it as being a "stirring blend of conscious-soul subject with deep-soul style" and compared the song to being, "like Percy Sledge singing Curtis Mayfield.".[2] The song features an audio excerpt of the famous speech Charlie Chaplin gave in his film The Great Dictator (1940).[3]
Initially a non-charting single in the Netherlands, the song was revived by radio station 3FM in early 2015 following the Paris shootings at the Charlie Hebdo offices on 7 January 2015. It was rush re-released as a single and only a week later reached number 15 in 3FM's Mega Top 50 chart.
The song is also sampled in Bon Iver's song "33 'GOD"" from their 2016 album 22, A Million.
The music video was filmed in Kyiv, Ukraine by Daniel Wolfe. It won the best music video award at the 2015 SXSW Film Festival.[4]