"Extraordinary" is a song by British electronic group
Clean Bandit
Clean Bandit is an English electronic music group formed in Cambridge in 2008. They have achieved four number-one singles and six additional top-ten songs on the UK Official Singles Chart. Since 2016, the group has been a trio comprising foundi ...
, featuring vocals from
Sharna Bass
Sharna Bass (born 21 May 1997) is an English singer. She is featured on the Clean Bandit single "Extraordinary". Bass also has a twin brother, Sean Bass, in the industry who was also spotted by Clean Bandit and sings the vocals in their song " Str ...
. It was written by Jack Patterson, Jimmy Napes, Grace Chatto and Gustave Rudman.
The song was issued as the fifth single from Clean Bandit's debut studio album, ''
New Eyes
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'' (2014). The single and its remix EP were first released in Ireland on 16 May 2014, and was released in the United Kingdom on 18 May 2014.
Music video
The music video was filmed in
Cuba
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. Cellist
Grace Chatto
Grace Chatto (born 10 December 1985) is an English musician and singer who is the cellist, backing vocalist and occasional main vocalist, for the electronic music band Clean Bandit.
Education
Chatto attended Latymer School and Westminster Sc ...
told Capital FM: " uba'san incredible country – unlike anywhere else we have ever been to. We wanted to capture the euphoric feeling of the music in sunshine and dancing. We made the video ourselves… with help from two Russian friends and some wonderful people we met out in
Havana
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The video was released onto
YouTube
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YouTube
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The video was made by the group and features Sharna Bass, who provides vocals for the track. As of April 2018, the video has received more than 34 million views.
Critical reception
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The Guardian
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'' said that "there's a lot going on in the recent single Extraordinary – steel drums, pizzicato strings, rumbling timpani, cut-up vocal samples, chattering electronics – but you'd never notice, partly because the production is so polite and anaemic that it saps the constant musical shifts of their power, and partly because it's all buried underneath another rotten song, this time a kind of uplifting
Emile Sandé
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-esque ballad: the result is about as extraordinary as branch of
Tesco Express
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