Stabbed in the Face and other weird songs we find romantic

Contributors describe how unlikely tracks became intimate signposts in their lives, every sound reshaped by moments and memory. One writer recalls being four months into a relationship with Maria when a trip to the ATP festival at Pontins in Camber Sands went sideways: sent to interview Wolf Eyes, the band insisted on watching a Manowar DVD and only answering Manowar-related questions.

Back at the B&B, a pre-release copy of Burned Mind played the single Stabbed in the Face; its howling feedback and tinnitus machine noise somehow sounded like a celebratory, ecstatic, love-filled symphony. They don’t listen to it much now, their 14-year-old son says it upsets the dog.

Another writer remembers Sharpe and Numan’s Change Your Mind as a big-night-out anthem whose swooning synths and sing-along chorus became something else when it appeared in the background of an Instagram video of someone they had just started seeing.

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