British glam rockers The Struts have released their new single “Strange Days” featuring the incomparable pop legend Robbie Williams.
A magnificent, sprawling, and string-laced duet, it’s a tender-hearted epic that offers incredible solace in the most chaotic of times. The song came about – along with the rest of the ten-track album – as a result of the band’s enforced lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic but started out as an idea lead singer Luke Spiller originally had on a tour bus last summer. It then took on a life of its own as a result of a chance encounter online.
Spiller had this to say about the collaboration:
I was doing Quarantine Radio and Robbie hit me up out of the blue asking if we could talk.
We ended up Face-Timing for about two hours the first time we’d ever spoken, talking about life and music and UFOs and everything else you can think of. I asked if he’d like to work together at some point, and while we were making the album he graciously let us come over and record him singing on his front porch.
Williams said:
We did a vocal for a wonderful song that has been gifted my way. It’s been an absolute pleasure and a privilege to listen to this man sing. It’s great to be a fan of someone and then a part of this recording. It’s like having a hero here and I genuinely mean that.
The Struts new album, Strange Days will be released on October 16th.
