Sir Elton John options on Gorillaz’s upcoming album, ‘Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez’.
The cartoon band – which is the brainchild of Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett – launched the star-studded file with the observe ‘Strange Timez’ that includes The Cure’s Robert Smith this week.
And now they’ve unveiled the full-tracklisting for the usual version and a 17-track deluxe LP, which shall be launched on October 23.
‘Rocketman’ hitmaker Elton options on the observe ‘The Pink Phantom’ with rapper 6LACK.
The music legend wrote on Instagram: ”I’m so excited to be part of @gorillaz Song Machine Season One. The Pink Phantom, coming quickly…”
Other artists set to look embrace St. Vincent and Beck.
The assortment consists of the beforehand launched singles ‘PAC-MAN’ with ScHoolboy Q and ‘Friday 13th’ with French rapper Octavian.
The ‘Song Machine’ mission kicked off in January with ‘Momentary Bliss’ with rapper slowthai and and punk rock duo Slaves, adopted by ‘Désolé’ with Fatoumata Diawara, ‘Aries’ with Peter Hook and Georgia, and ‘How Far?’ that includes Skepta, which was a tribute to late drummer, Tony Allen.
Blur legend Damon revealed his collaboration with Robert was made ”utterly” by way of electronic mail.
Speaking to Steve Lamacq on BBC Radio 6 Music, he mentioned: ”We did this tune with Robert utterly by electronic mail. We despatched him it and he mentioned, ‘Yeah, I prefer it”’
The ‘Friday I’m In Love’ hitmaker quipped again: ”Was I actually that enthusiastic? I liked it! I assumed it was glorious.”
‘Song 2’ hitmaker Damon heaped reward on Robert for taking the observe to the subsequent stage.
Asked if he had particularly written the music to function Robert, he added: ”No, no, no. What I gave Robert was one thing very imprecise. He utterly and totally made it what it’s.”
Meanwhile, Robert revealed he has recorded a variety of different collaborations throughout lockdown in between ending The Cure’s new file.
He mentioned: ”There have been so much truly, much more than normal by way of the lockdown interval. I suppose individuals are considering, ‘What can we do?’ Generally talking, I’ve accomplished a pair different collaborative issues this yr – nothing like this Gorillaz factor – however yeah, it simply got here out. I suppose I used to be in the midst of ending off the large music on the finish of The Cure album, which is 10 minutes of intense doom and gloom and this dropped out my inbox…”
