Strange Timez
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| Single by Gorillaz featuring Robert Smith | ||||
| from the album Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez | ||||
| Released | 9 September 2020 | |||
| Recorded | 2020 | |||
| Studio | Damon Albarn's home studio, Devon, England | |||
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| Length | 3:47 | |||
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"Strange Timez" is a song by British virtual band Gorillaz featuring The Cure frontman, Robert Smith. The track was released on 9 September 2020 as the seventh single for Gorillaz' seventh studio album, Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez, and the sixth episode of the Song Machine project, a web series that involved the release of various Gorillaz tracks featuring different guest musicians over the course of 2020.[4][5]
Background
[edit | edit source]The song was first teased at the end of the "Pac-Man" music video, where the opening tune of the song played over an announcement that Song Machine would return in September. It is the first single from Song Machine to be recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic, with Albarn mentioning that the track was recorded over email with Smith.[6]
Music video
[edit | edit source]The video, directed by Jamie Hewlett, Tim McCourt, and Max Taylor, features the band members going on a trip to the Moon. 2-D stares at the Earth, Noodle blows up a billboard on the Moon, Russel performs donuts with the vehicle on the Moon's surface, and Murdoc discovers a Monolith on the Moon. When he stepped through it, it teleported him back to Earth, right outside of Kong Studios. The video ends with the message "Be the Change" written out of craters on the Moon's surface.
Track listing
[edit | edit source]| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producers | Length |
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| 1. | "Machine Bitez #12" (with 2-D, Murdoc, Russel and Noodle) | 0:30 | ||
| 2. | "Strange Timez" (featuring Robert Smith) |
| 3:47 | |
| 3. | "Machine Bitez #13" (with 2-D, Murdoc, Russel and Noodle) | 0:46 | ||
| 4. | "Strange Timez" (Robert Smith AURORA Remix) | 4:58 | ||
| Total length: | 10:01 | |||
Personnel
[edit | edit source]Gorillaz
- Damon Albarn – vocals, instrumentation, director, keyboards, bass
- Jamie Hewlett – artwork, character design, video direction
- Remi Kabaka Jr. – drum programming, percussion
Additional musicians and personnel
- Robert Smith – vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass guitar, music box
- Etta Albarn Teulon – trumpet
- John Davis – mastering engineer
- Samuel Egglenton – engineering
- Stephen Sedgwick – mixing engineer, engineering
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