| Overjoyed | |
| Cover: | Bastille - Overjoyed.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Bastille |
| Album: | Bad Blood |
| B-Side: | Sleepsong |
| Released: | 27 April 2012 |
| Recorded: | 2011 |
| Length: | 3:24 |
| Label: | Virgin |
| Producer: | Dan Smith, Mark Crew |
| Prev Title: | Flaws |
| Prev Title2: | Icarus |
| Prev Year: | 2011 |
| Next Title: | Bad Blood |
| Next Year: | 2012 |
"Overjoyed" is a song by the British band Bastille. Released on 27 April 2012, it was the band's first single release through Virgin Records.[1] It was the first single to be taken from their first studio album, Bad Blood. The track was also included in both their 2011 self-released recording, the Laura Palmer EP, and the 2013 US-only release, the Haunt. Due to little promotion, the track failed to chart in the United Kingdom, the only non-charting single from the album.
The music video was released onto YouTube on 3 November 2011. It was directed by Courtney Phillips and is a length of three minutes and forty-five seconds. It is the band's first music video and, like the extended play the song was originally featured on, it is said to be heavily inspired by the television series Twin Peaks. It shows a girl, possibly representing the character Laura Palmer from the series, who leaves her room with a book and walks through the streets at night to go to a forest where she buries the book. She is also seen several times throughout the video standing near a lake in the forest (as seen in the single cover).
Following its premiere, the music publication Q introduced the track as its "Track of the Day" for 7 March 2012.[2]
There are alternative videos of the band performing the song live at the Copped Hall.[3] The Distance remix was also given a video.[4]
| Region | Date | Format | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom[6] [7] | 27 April 2012 | Virgin Records | |
| 30 April 2012 | 7" vinyl |