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Wikipedia article
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| type = single
| artist = Gorillaz featuring Robert Smith
| album = Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez
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| released =
| recorded = 2020
| studio = Damon Albarn's home studio, Devon, England
| genre = * Electropop
* post-punk
* synth-pop
* dark wave
| length = 3:47
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| chronology = Gorillaz
| prev_title = Pac-Man
| prev_year = 2020
| next_title = The Pink Phantom
| next_year = 2020
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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 involves the ongoing release of various Gorillaz tracks featuring different guest musicians over the course of 2020.
Background
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.
Music video
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
Personnel
'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
References
Category:2020 songs
Category:2020 singles
Category:Gorillaz songs
Category:Songs written by Damon Albarn
Category:Songs written by Remi Kabaka Jr.
Category:Songs written by Robert Smith (musician)
Category:Parlophone singles
Category:Warner Records singles
Category:Song Machine
Category:Electropop songs
Category:Post-punk songs
Category:British synth-pop songs
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