The Bravery were in the studio with producer John Hill, who has previously worked with Santogold and M.I.A., and that new tunes were “already taking shape”. In a Billboard feature, Enidcott descibes the new album as “more like the first record (in 2005) in that there’s a lot of electronics on it. While recording the new album, Sam Endicott and John Hill co-wrote three songs for the new Shakira album, including the single “She Wolf” and “Men In This Town.” Endicott and Hill have also co-written a song for the new Christina Aguilera album.

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Hill turned out to be a fruitful collaborator for Endicott, not just on the Bravery’s album, but as a cowriter on some outside material. Hill is known for critical-fave fare like M.I.A. and Santogold, “but he’s also done J.Lo and Christina Aguilera… and then Amazing Baby. So he’s done a lot of super-indie rock and then also pop stuff. He was producing Shakira, and she was like ‘Play me something you’ve been working on.’ So he and I got together and wrote a few songs, and she wound up recording two or three of them”—including the hit “She Wolf.”

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