"Strobelite" is a single by British

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, released on their fifth studio album ''

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''. It features guest vocals by Peven Everett. The single was released on 4 August 2017, with an accompanying music video released three days later.

Music video

The music video to "Strobelite" was released on 7 August 2017. It was created by Passion Pictures. The video is set in a dance club, featuring animated band members 2-D and

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dancing center stage amongst a crowd of clubgoers as collaborator Peven Everett sings from the sidelines. A combination of live-action and 3D CGI shots were used to create the video, much like the music video for Gorillaz' 2010 single " Stylo".

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was utilized to animate the virtual band members. The video features cameos by several Gorillaz collaborators, including

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, Posdnous of

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, Savages' Jehnny Beth,

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, the voice of Gorillaz band member Murdoc Niccals, and

Jamie Hewlett Jamie Christopher Hewlett (born 3 April 1968) is an English comic book creator, illustrator, music video director, and songwriter. He is the co-creator of the comic book '' Tank Girl'' with Alan Martin and co-creator of the virtual band Gorilla ...

, the co-creator of Gorillaz.

Personnel

Damon Albarn Damon Albarn (; born 23 March 1968) is an English-Icelandic musician, singer-songwriter and composer, best known as the frontman and primary lyricist of the rock band Blur and as the co-creator and primary musical contributor of the virtual ...

– vocals, synthesizer *Peven Everett – vocals, additional keyboards * The Twilite Tone – additional vocals, synthesizer, drums, bass guitar * Remi Kabaka Jr. – drum programming * Stephen Sedgwick – sampled loops, additional drum programming, engineering, mixing engineer, recording engineer *John Davis – mastering engineer *KT Pipal – assistant *Samuel Egglenton – assistant *The Humanz (Rasul A-Salaam, Starr Busby, Melanie J-B Charles, Drea D'Nur, Giovanni James, Marcus Anthony Johnson, Janelle Kroll, Brandon Markell Holmes, Imani Vonshà) – additional vocals

Charts

References

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