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The 2023 deluxe edition adds three new Gorillaz collaborations, plus a piano version of ‘Silent Running’ and a remix of ‘New Gold’.
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The second single from Gorillaz's 2005 album 'Demon Days', 'Dare' features Happy Mondays and Black Grape frontman Shaun Ryder alongside lead vocals provided by Rosie Wilson, voicing the band's animated guitarist Noodle. The track's hypnotic repetition and minimal lyric structure build around the central refrain, Ryder's delivery turning the title into something between instruction and invitation.
Released in July 2005, the song layers Wilson's breathy vocal over a sparse electronic pulse, the words looping and fragmenting until the meaning sits somewhere between dance-floor exhortation and studio abstraction. The production holds back, letting the rhythm and the mantra-like vocal carry the track's insistent forward motion.
"Dare" is a single by Gorillaz, released 19th August 2005. The track is 4:05 long. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about Gorillaz.
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