"Aries" is a song by British virtual band Gorillaz featuring drummer Georgia and bassist Peter Hook of the bands Joy Division and New Order. The track was released on 9 April 2020 as the third single for Gorillaz' seventh studio album, Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez. It was part of the Song Machine project, a web series which involved the release of various Gorillaz tracks featuring different guest musicians over the course of 2020.
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Music video
The video, directed by Jamie Hewlett and Tim McCourt, features the band members driving vehicles across a highway landscape in Morocco. 2-D and Murdoc are riding together on a motorcycle, followed by Noodle in a dune buggy (where just prior she is texting someone about 2-D's whereabouts and has grown concerned for him) and finally Russel in a golf kart. Near the end of the video all four of them ride up close to one another. As 2-D continues to sing, Murdoc pulls out a syringe and smiles in a sinister fashion.
On 4 September 2020, Gorillaz released an online driving game based on the "Aries" music video on their website.
Personnel
Gorillaz
Damon Albarn – vocals, instrumentation, director, guitar, synthesizer
Jamie Hewlett – artwork, character design, video direction
Remi Kabaka Jr. – drum programming, percussion, drums
Additional musicians and personnel
Peter Hook – bass
Georgia – drums, percussion
John Davis – mastering engineer
P2J – drum programming
James Ford – synthesizers, live drums, percussion, drum programming
Stephen Sedgwick – mixing engineer, engineering
Samuel Egglenton – engineering
