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God Loves You When You're Dancing

God Loves You When You're Dancing
Vance Joy God Loves You When You're Dancing.jpg
EP by Vance Joy
Released 22 March 2013 (2013-03-22)
Genre
Length 22:10
Label Liberation Music
Vance Joy chronology
God Loves You When You're Dancing
(2013)
Dream Your Life Away
(2014)
Singles from God Loves You When You're Dancing
  1. "From Afar"
    Released: 21 January 2013
  2. "Riptide"
    Released: 21 May 2013

God Loves You When You're Dancing is the debut extended play by Australian singer-songwriter Vance Joy. It was released in Australia on 22 March 2013 via Liberation Music.

The EP was nominated for two awards at the ARIA Music Awards of 2013; ARIA Award for Breakthrough Artist - Release, but lost to Flume by Flume and ARIA Award for Best Pop Release, but lost to Armageddon by Guy Sebastian.

The EP contains the single "Riptide" that in May 2015 become the longest-charting song in ARIA Chart history, having remained in the top 100 for 107 weeks and counting. It surpassed previous record holder, Poker Face by Lady Gaga's 106 week record. In January 2016, the week count was at 120.

Grace Goodfellow of The Ripe TV gave the extended play a positive review, praising each song and concluding; “Vance Joy isn’t just a musician. He is an artist and this EP is his masterpiece. ‘’God Loves You When You’re Dancing’’ is a beautiful piece of art – it really, truly is.” Daniel Falconer of Female First UK also praised each track and gave the EP 5 out of 5 saying “Vance Joy is without a doubt one of the most exciting singer-songwriters to emerge from the scores we see on a regular basis, and any fan of music would be a fool not to keep an eye firmly on him.”


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