"Flaws" is a song by British band
Bastille. It is the third single from their debut studio album Bad Blood. The song was the band's debut single; it was first released in 2011 through the independent label Young and Lost Club as a double A-side
7-inch single with their song "Icarus". The single was later re-released through
Virgin Records as a
digital download on 21 October 2012, featuring remixes and new B-side track "Durban Skies", peaking at number 21 on the
UK Singles Chart on this occasion. "Flaws" was released for a third time on 3 March 2014, but did not improve upon its previous peak.
Composition
"Flaws" makes extensive use of compound quadruple meter (12 8 time).[1]
Music video
Two music videos have been produced. The first accompanied the 2012 release of "Flaws" and was first released onto YouTube on 12 September 2012 at a total length of three minutes and forty-one seconds.[2] A second video released in 2014 for the single's re-release documents the band's experiences of 2013 via a video montage of several of their performances.