Claude says:This synth-pop track from the LA duo spent years building to its 2013 peak — Capital Cities wrote and produced it themselves, and that trumpet line famously only made it in after eight tries. The Grady Hall video, set in the Los Angeles Theatre with dancers from every era spilling out of the walls, landed a Grammy nomination. You caught "Safe and Sound" in mid-2018, a single play that suggests you heard it once and moved on.