Taxi Back To 80's Reykjavík is a track from the Japanese deluxe edition of Gorillaz' seventh studio album Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez. It is the 18th and final track of the album.
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Taxi Back To 80's Reykjavík is one of the tracks made during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown in 2020. The drums on the track were provided by Rudy Albarn, a nephew of Gorillaz co-creator Damon Albarn.
Taxi Back To 80's Reykjavík was eventually released on the Japanese deluxe edition of the Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez.
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- Taxi Back to 80s Reykjavik is the only instrumental track on Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez.
- It is also the fourth Gorillaz song to be released as a Japanese-exclusive to a specific album. The first two are Samba At 13 and Film Trailer Music, both from D-Sides and later Pirate's Progress on the Experience Edition of Plastic Beach (but was later featured on the digital iTunes version of the album as well).
- In contrary to other region-exclusive bonus tracks from previous albums, this track is actually present on Gorillaz' offical Spotify,[1] Apple Music[2] and SoundCloud[3]accounts, however it can only be accessed either from Japan or with the use of a VPN.
- The title of the track most likely comes from the fact that Damon Albarn was granted Icelandic citizenship in 2020, at the time the Song Machine series was being recorded.