The Selfish Giant (song)
| "The Selfish Giant" | |
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| Song by Damon Albarn featuring. Natasha Khan | |
| from the album Everyday Robots | |
| Recorded | 2013 Studio 13 (West London) |
| Genre | Folktronica, soul, trip hop, downtempo |
| Length | 4:47 |
| Label | Parlophone, Warner. Bros., XL |
| Songwriter(s) | Damon Albarn & Natasha Khan |
| Producer(s) | Damon Albarn & Richard Russell |
| Everyday Robots track listing | |
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12 tracks
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"The Selfish Giant" is a song recorded by English recording artist and songwriter and Blur frontman & Gorillaz creator, Damon Albarn, from his debut solo studio album Everyday Robots. The track features Natasha Khan, known professionally as Bat for Lashes. The track is produced by both Albarn and Richard Russell, whom Albarn has previously worked with on Bobby Womack's comeback album The Bravest Man in the Universe and on the DRC Music album Kinshasa One Two.
On 18 January 2014, the Warner Music Store was updated to include Damon Albarn's new album and its name was revealed – Everyday Robots. The deluxe edition of the album came packaged with a DVD of Albarn performing a few album tracks live at Fox Studios in Los Angeles. The DVD was filmed on 3 December 2013. On the next day, the album's information was removed from the website, which made many believe it was not supposed to have leaked so soon.
In a January 2014 interview with Rolling Stone, Albarn revealed that Natasha Khan will appear on the track "The Selfish Giant" as a "ghostly echo", and that Brian Eno had collaborated on the album's final track.
Albarn said in an interview: "I wrote the songs, but Richard Russell was a fantastic editor and did a lot of the atmospheric stuff, so in a sense it's not entirely my record. It is my narrative, and my voice and my songs. I started off giving Richard a lot of songs, 60 or 60-plus – he had the editorship."
Speaking of her contribution to Everyday Robots, Bat for Lashes' Natasha Khan said: "If I could go back and tell the 15-year-old me that I'd just sang with Damon for his new record, she'd probably wet her pants with excitement, I had such a massive crush on him [...]". In 2013, Khan had supported Albarn's band Blur at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Ireland.
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