There Goes the Fear

"There Goes the Fear" was the first single from The Last Broadcast. It came out on 15 April 2002 on CD and 10 inch vinyl, and both formats were deleted the same day. It entered the UK chart at number 3, the band's highest placing. Jez Williams said the idea was to do something different from the norm, and that they liked a physical copy being precious to someone who got to the shop that day.

Williams wrote the backing track and the top-line melody over a couple of nights at his makeshift studio in his Northenden house. The song ends in a percussion outro, Brazilian Carnival in flavor, played by Marc Starr, Chris Davies, Billy Booth and Richard Sliwa. The video, assembled entirely from existing footage by Julian House and Julian Gibbs, won a D&AD award in 2003 for Outstanding Direction.

Pitchfork's Joe Tangari called its bounce and slide guitar a strong candidate for one of their best songs. Ian Cohen wrote in 2010 that it might stand as their crowning achievement. The Guardian's reviewer in 2002 wrote that it was Whiter Shade of Pale on Solsbury Hill. NME placed it at number 137 on its 2011 list of the 150 best tracks of the past 15 years, and it appears in the 2009 film (500) Days of Summer.