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Gorillaz is an English musical project created in 1998 by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett. This project consists of the Gorillaz music itself and an extensive fictional universe depicting a "virtual band" of drawing characters. This band is equanimous of four animated members: second (lead vocalist, keyboard, and melodica), Murdoc Niccals (bass guitar and pulsate machine), Noodle (guitar, keyboard, and occasional vocals) and Russel Hobbs (drums and percussion). Their fictional universe is explored through the band's website and music videos, too as a number of other media, such every bit short cartoons. The music is a collaboration between various musicians, Damon beingness the simply permanent musical correspondent. Their manner is a limerick of multiple musical genres, with a large number of influences including: dub, hip hop, alternative rock, electronic, and popular music.
The band'due south 2001 debut album Gorillaz sold over vii million copies and earned them an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records as the Nigh Successful Virtual Band. Information technology was nominated for the Mercury Prize 2001, merely the nomination was later withdrawn at the band'southward request. Their 2d studio anthology, Demon Days, released in 2005, went five times platinum in the Uk, double platinum in the Us, earned five Grammy Award nominations for 2006 and won ane of them in the Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals category. Gorillaz have besides released two B-sides compilations and a remix album. The combined sales of Gorillaz and Demon Days had, by 2007, exceeded xx one thousand thousand albums. The band'south third studio album, Plastic Embankment , was released in March 2010. Their latest anthology, Song Machine, was launched in January of 2020 and an unconfirmed Song Automobile Flavour 2 was announced in the same year, although a release engagement has not been set.
Band Biography [ ]
The world's acknowledged wholly animated band. Gorillaz was thought of past Damon Albarn from Blur and Jamie Hewlett, the creator of Tank Girl, and other comics (including one based on the lyrics to "Common People" past Pulp), and they ready information technology into result. At that place are no real-world counterparts to each of the members (aside from that 2d is generally considered to be the Damon Albarn of the group), and, in fact, information technology takes a veritable army of people to bring Gorillaz to life -- an army that changes considerably betwixt albums. They're perhaps known almost for their hooky songs and innovative, excellent music videos. In 2005, they released the long awaited followup Demon Days to their beginning album.On March 3rd,2010, they realized there third album Plastic Beach.There fourth album The Fall was released as a free download from in that location website on the 25th of December 2010,and a physical realized was made in April 18th of 2011.
History [ ]
Creation (1990–1999) [ ]
Damon Albarn
Jamie Hewlett
Musician Damon Albarn and comic creative person Jamie Hewlett met in 1990 when guitarist Graham Coxon, a fan of Hewlett'south piece of work, asked him to interview Blur, which Albarn and Coxon had recently formed. The interview was published in Deadline magazine, home of Hewlett'south comic strip Tank Girl. Hewlett initially thought Albarn was "arsey, a wanker;" and despite becoming acquaintances with the band, they often did not get on, especially afterwards Hewlett began seeing Coxon'due south ex-girlfriend Jane Olliver. Despite this, Albarn and Hewlett started sharing a apartment on Westbourne Grove in London in 1997. Hewlett had recently broken up with Oliver and Albarn was at the cease of his highly publicised relationship with Justine Frischmann of Elastica.
The idea to create Gorillaz came near when Albarn and Hewlett were watching MTV. Hewlett said, "If you lot watch MTV for too long, it'southward a bit like hell – there's nothing of substance at that place. So we got this idea for a virtual band, something that would exist a comment on that." Albarn recalled the idea similarly, saying "This was the first of the sort of boy band explosion... and information technology just felt so manufactured. And nosotros were similar, well let'southward make a manufactured band but make it kind of interesting." The band originally identified themselves as "Gorilla" and the first song they recorded was "Ghost Train," which was subsequently released every bit a B-side on their single "Stone the House".
Although not released nether the Gorillaz name, Albarn has said that "one of the starting time ever Gorillaz tunes" was Blur's 1997 unmarried "On Your Own", which was released for their fifth studio anthology Blur.
Gorillaz (2000–03) [ ]
From 1998 to 2000, Albarn recorded for Gorillaz' self-titled debut album at his newly opened Studio xiii in London every bit well as at Geejam Studios in Jamaica.[21] The sessions resulted in the band's first release, the EP Tomorrow Comes Today, released on 27 November 2000. This EP consisted by and large of tracks which later appeared on the album, and it too included the band's first music video for "Tomorrow Comes Today", which introduced the virtual band members for the beginning time.
With Gorillaz, Albarn began to branch out into other genres which he had not explored with Blur, such as hip-hop, dub and Latin music, a process he described as liberating: "Ane of the reasons I began Gorillaz is I had a lot of rhythms I never thought I could apply with Blur. A lot of that stuff never really seemed to manifest itself in the music we fabricated together as Blur." Albarn originally began work on the album past himself, yet eventually invited American hip-hop producer Dan "The Automator" Nakamura to serve as producer on the album, explaining "I called Dan the Automator in after I'd done more than half of it and felt it would benefit from having somebody else'southward focus. So I only rang him and asked whether he was interested in helping me terminate information technology off." Nakamura and Albarn had recently collaborated on Deltron 3030, the debut album by the hip-hop supergroup of the same proper name featuring rapper Del the Funky Homosapien and DJ Kid Koala, both of whom Nakamura recruited to assistance in finishing Gorillaz material. Del featured on two tracks on the album, including the pb single "Clint Eastwood", while Kid Koala contributed turntables to various tracks. The album featured boosted collaborations with Ibrahim Ferrer of Buena Vista Social Gild, Miho Hatori of Cibo Matto and Tina Weymouth of The Talking Heads and Tom Tom Lodge, representing a pattern of collaboration with a wide range of artists which later became a staple of Gorillaz every bit a project.
American hip-hop producer Dan "The Automator" Nakamura produced the band'due south debut album.
Gorillaz was released on 26 March 2001 and was a major commercial success, debuting at #3 on the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland Albums Chart and #14 on the U.s. Billboard 200, going on to sell over seven million copies worldwide, powered by the success of the "Clint Eastwood" single. The album was promoted with the singles "Clint Eastwood", "19-2000" and "Rock the House", in addition to the previously released "Tomorrow Comes Today", with each unmarried featuring a music video directed by Hewlett starring the virtual band members. Hewlett besides helmed the design of the band's website, which was presented as an interactive bout of the band'due south fictional "Kong Studios" home and recording studio, featuring interactive games and explorative elements. Following the release of the album, the ring embarked on a brief tour of Europe, Japan and the United States to support the anthology in which a live band featuring Albarn played completely obscured behind a behemothic screen on which Hewlett'southward accompanying visuals were projected. The virtual band member's voice actors were likewise nowadays at some shows and spoke live to the audience to give the impression that the fictional band was present on stage. In after interviews, Albarn described the band's first tour as difficult due to the limitations imposed past the band playing behind a screen: "For someone who had just spent the last ten years out forepart being a frontman [with Blur], it was a really weird experience. And I have to say, some nights I merely wanted to get a knife and merely cutting [the screen] and stick my caput through." The anthology was followed past the B-sides compilation G-Sides released in December 2001.
On 7 Dec 2001, the band released the single "911" a collaboration with hip hop grouping D12 (without Eminem) and vocalist Terry Hall of The Specials about the September 11 attacks. At the 2002 Brit Awards the virtual members of Gorillaz "performed" for the start time, actualization in 3D animation on 4 large screens along with rap accompaniment by Phi Life Cypher, a production which reportedly toll £300,000 to create. The band were nominated for iv Brit Awards, including Best British Group, Best British Album and British Breakthrough Human activity, simply did not win any awards.
On 1 July 2002, a remix album titled Laika Come up Home was released, containing almost of the tracks from Gorillaz remixed in dub and reggae mode by the DJ group Spacemonkeyz. On 18 November 2002, the band released the DVD Phase One: Celebrity Take Down, which independent all of the ring's released visual content upwards to that point along with other extras.
After the success of the debut anthology, Albarn and Hewlett briefly explored the possibility of creating a Gorillaz theatrical film, only Hewlett claimed the duo later lost interest: "We lost all interest in doing it as shortly every bit we started meeting with studios and talking to these Hollywood executive types, we just weren't on the same page. Nosotros said, fuck it, we'll sit down on the idea until we can practise information technology ourselves, and perchance even raise the money ourselves."
Demon Days (2004–07) [ ]
Albarn spent the majority of 2003 on tour with Mistiness in support of their newly released album Think Tank; yet, upon completion of the bout, he decided to render to Gorillaz, reuniting with Hewlett to prepare for a second album. Hewlett explained that the duo chose to proceed Gorillaz to show that the project was non "a gimmick": "If yous do it again, it's no longer a gimmick, and if it works and so we've proved a betoken." The result was Demon Days, released on 11 May 2005. The album was another major commercial success, debuting at No. 1 on the UK Albums Charts and #half-dozen on the Us Billboard 200, and has since gone six times platinum in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, double platinum in the United States, and triple platinum in Commonwealth of australia, outperforming sales of the first anthology and condign the band's nearly successful album to appointment. The album'due south success was partially driven by the success of the atomic number 82 single "Feel Good Inc." featuring hip-hop group De La Soul, which topped Billboard's Alternative Songs chart in the U.S. for viii consecutive weeks and was featured in a commercial for Apple's iPod. The album was also supported by the later on singles "Dare", "Dirty Harry", and the double A-side "Kids with Guns" / "El Mañana".
Albarn asked Danger Mouse to produce the band'southward 2d anthology Demon Days subsequently hearing his mashup album The Grey Anthology.
Demon Days establish the band taking a darker tone, partially influenced by a train journey Albarn had taken with his family through impoverished rural China. Albarn described the anthology equally a concept anthology: "The whole album kind of tells the story of the night — staying up during the night — merely information technology's besides an allegory. Information technology's what we're living in basically, the world in a state of dark." Assertive that the album needed "a slightly different approach" compared to the first album, Albarn enlisted American producer Brian Burton, improve known by his stage name Danger Mouse, to produce the album, whom Albarn praised as "one of the best immature producers in the earth" after hearing his 2004 mashup album The Grayness Album. Burton felt he and Albarn had a high degree of affinity with each other, stating in an interview on the cosmos of the anthology: "We never had any arguments. Nosotros even take that cease-each-other's-sentences matter happening. In that location are a lot of the same influences between united states of america, like Ennio Morricone and psychedelic pop-rock, but he has x years on me, so I have some catching up to do. Where he can school me on new wave and punk of the late '70s/early on '80s, I tin can school him on a lot of hip-hop. We're very competitive and pushed each other." Similar to the commencement album, Demon Days features collaborations with several different artists, including Bootie Brownish, Shaun Ryder, Ike Turner, MF Doom (who was recording with Danger Mouse as Danger Doom at the fourth dimension) and Martina Topley-Bird, among others.
The band performed in silhouette during the Demon Days Live performances (pictured here with De La Soul on phase)
The ring chose to forgo traditional live touring in support of Demon Days, instead limiting live performance during the anthology wheel to a five nighttime residency in November 2005 at the Manchester Opera House billed as Demon Days Alive. The concerts saw the band performing the anthology in full each night with most featured artists from the album present. Unlike the debut album tour, the alive band was visible on stage in view of the audience but obscured by lighting in such a mode that only their silhouettes were visible, with a screen above the band displaying Hewlett's visuals alongside each song. The residency was later repeated in April 2006 at New York City's Apollo Theater and the Manchester performances were after released on DVD as Demon Days: Live at the Manchester Opera House.
The virtual Gorillaz members "performed" at the 2005 MTV Europe Music Awards in Nov 2005[49] and again at the 48th Almanac Grammy Awards in February 2006, appearing to perform on stage via Musion Eyeliner engineering science. Albarn later expressed disappointment at the execution of the performance, citing the low book level required and then as to not disturb the technology: "That was tough... They started and information technology was so placidity cause they've got this piece of film that y'all've got to pull over the stage and then any bass frequencies would merely mess up the illusion completely."[51] At the Grammys, the ring won Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for "Feel Good Inc.", which was also nominated for Record of the Year. Albarn and Hewlett explored the idea of producing a full "alive holographic tour" featuring the virtual Gorillaz appearing on phase with Munsion Eyeliner technology subsequently the Grammys performance, but the tour was ultimately never realised due to the tremendous expense and logistical issues that would have resulted.
In October 2006, the band released the book Rise of the Ogre. Presented equally an autobiography of the band ostensibly written by the fictional band members and expanding on the band'southward fictional backstory and universe, the volume was actually written by official Gorillaz script writer and live drummer Cass Browne and featured new artwork by Hewlett. Subsequently the aforementioned month, the ring released some other DVD, Phase 2: Slowboat to Hades, compiling much of the band's visual content from the album bike. A 2nd B-sides compilation, D-Sides was released in November 2007, featuring B-sides and remixes associated with Demon Days as well as unreleased tracks from the sessions for the album. In April 2009, the documentary moving picture Bananaz was released. Directed past Ceri Levy, the film documents the backside-the-scenes history of the band from 2000 to 2006.
Plastic Beach and The Autumn (2008–13) [ ]
Albarn and Hewlett's side by side project together was the opera Monkey: Journey to the W based on the classical Chinese novel Journeying to the West, which premiered at the 2007 Manchester International Festival. While non officially a Gorillaz projection, Albarn mentioned in an interview that the projection was "Gorillaz, really but we can't call it that for legal reasons."
After completing work on Monkey in tardily 2007, Albarn and Hewlett began working on a new Gorillaz project entitled Carousel, described by Albarn as being most "the mystical aspects of Uk". Hewlett described Carousel in a 2008 interview every bit "even bigger and more hard than Monkey... It'southward sort of similar a film but not with one narrative story. There'south many stories, told effectually a bigger story, set to music, and done in live action, animation, all dissimilar styles. Originally information technology was a moving picture but at present we think it'southward a film and it's a stage thing likewise. Damon's written around seventy songs for it, and I've got great plans for the visuals." The Carousel concept was eventually dropped with Albarn and Hewlett's work evolving into the tertiary Gorillaz studio album Plastic Beach .
Drawing upon environmentalist themes, Plastic Embankment was inspired by the idea of a "secret floating island deep in the South Pacific... fabricated upward of the detritus, droppings and washed up remnants of humanity" inspired by marine pollution such as plastic that Albarn had establish in a beach near one of his homes in Devon as well equally the Great Pacific garbage patch. Unlike previous Gorillaz albums, Albarn fabricated the decision to produce Plastic Embankment past himself, with no co-producer. The album was recorded throughout 2008 and 2009 in London, New York Metropolis and Syria although production of the album was briefly interrupted and then that Albarn could join Mistiness for a reunion bout in the summertime of 2009, with Albarn explaining "there's no way you tin practice that and that [Blur and Gorillaz] at the same time." Plastic Beach saw Gorillaz motility into a more electronic pop sound, with Albarn describing the album as "the well-nigh pop tape I've ever fabricated" and saying that he took special care to make the anthology'south lyrics and melodies clear and focused compared to previous albums. Plastic Beach too featured the largest bandage of collaborators featured however on a Gorillaz album, fulfilling Albarn's goal of "working with an incredibly eclectic, surprising cast of people" including artists such as Snoop Dogg, Mos Def, Bobby Womack, Paul Simonon, Mick Jones, Picayune Dragon, Lou Reed and Gruff Rhys among others, and besides included orchestral contributions from Sinfonia Viva and the Lebanese National Symphony Orchestra. Albarn explained the expanded roster of featured artists represented his and Hewlett'southward new vision of Gorillaz as a project, explaining in a July 2008 interview that "Gorillaz now to us is not like 4 animated characters whatever more – information technology's more like an organization of people doing new projects... That'southward my platonic model."
The 2010 alive shows supporting Plastic Beach saw the live band performing in full view of the audience for the kickoff fourth dimension.
Released on three March 2010, Plastic Beach debuted at #2 on both the Uk Albums Chart and the U.s.a. Billboard 200 chart, the ring'south highest placing debut chart position. The anthology was supported by the lead unmarried "Stylo" featuring Mos Def and Bobby Womack released in Jan 2010 and the later singles "On Melancholy Hill" and "Rhinestone Optics". To promote the anthology, the band embarked on the Escape to Plastic Embankment Tour, the band's first world tour and also their start live performances in which the live band performed fully in view of the audience on stage with no visual obstructions. The tour, which featured many of the collaborative artists from Plastic Beach and saw the live band wearing naval attire, was later described by Albarn every bit having been extremely costly to produce, with the ring barely breaking even on the shows, saying "I loved doing it, only economically it was a fucking disaster." The bout was preceded by headline performances at several international music festivals, including the Coachella and Glastonbury festivals. On 21 November 2010, while still on tour, the band released the non-album single "Doncamatic" featuring British singer Daley.
During the North American leg of the Escape to Plastic Beach tour in the fall of 2010, Albarn continued recording Gorillaz songs entirely on his iPad. The recordings were afterwards released equally the album The Autumn, first released digitally on Christmas Mean solar day 2010 and later given a physical release on nineteen April 2011. Albarn said the album served equally a diary of the American leg of the bout, explaining that the tracks were presented exactly as they were on the twenty-four hour period they were written and recorded with no additional production or overdubs: "I literally made it on the road. I didn't write it earlier, I didn't set it. I simply did it day past day as a kind of diary of my feel in America. If I left it until the New Year to release it then the cynics out there would say, 'Oh well, it's been tampered with', but if I put information technology out now they'd know that I oasis't done anything considering I've been on tour ever since."[68] The ring later released a "Gorillaz edition" of the Korg iElectribe music production app for iPad, featuring many of the same samples and sounds used by Albarn to create The Fall.
On 23 February 2012, Gorillaz released "DoYaThing", a single to promote a Gorillaz-branded collection of Antipodal shoes which were released shortly after. The song was a role of Converse's "Three Artists, One Song" project, with the two additional collaborators being James White potato of LCD Soundsystem and André 3000 of Outkast. Two unlike edits of the vocal were released: a four-and-a-half minute radio edit released on Converse's website and the total thirteen-minute version of the song released on the Gorillaz website. Hewlett returned to direct the unmarried'south music video, featuring fictionalized animated versions of Murphy and André interacting with the virtual Gorillaz ring members. The song received positive reviews from critics, with particular praise given to André 3000's contributions to the track.
In April 2012, Albarn told The Guardian that he and Hewlett had fallen out and that future Gorillaz projects were "unlikely". Tension between the two had been building, partly due to a belief held by Hewlett that his contributions to Gorillaz were existence minimised. Speaking to The Guardian in April 2017, Hewlett explained: "Damon had one-half the Disharmonism on phase, and Bobby Womack and Mos Def and De La Soul, and fucking Hypnotic Contumely Ensemble and Bashy and everyone else. Information technology was the greatest band e'er. And the screen on stage backside them seemed to get smaller every day. I'd say, 'Have we got a new screen?' and the tour managing director was like, 'No, it's the same screen.' Because it seemed to me like it was getting smaller." Albarn gave his side of the story in a separate interview, proverb "I call back we were at a cross purposes somewhat on that last record [Plastic Beach], which is a shame. It was one of those things, the music and the videos weren't working as well together, but I felt we'd fabricated a really skilful record and I was into it." On 25 April 2012, in an interview with Metro, Albarn was more optimistic about Gorillaz' future, proverb that in one case he had worked out his differences with Hewlett, he was sure that they would brand another record. In June 2013, Hewlett confirmed that he and Albarn planned to someday continue Gorillaz and record a follow-upwardly album to Plastic Beach, saying "We'll come back to it when the time is right."
Hiatus and Humanz (2014–17) [ ]
Following the release of DoYaThing and the publicization of Albarn and Hewlett's autumn-out in 2012, Gorillaz entered a multiyear hiatus. During the hiatus, Albarn released a solo album, Everyday Robots, scored stage productions and connected to record and tour with Mistiness, while Hewlett held art exhibitions and attempted to create a film project which was ultimately never realized. While on bout in support of Everyday Robots in 2014, Albarn signaled openness to returning to Gorillaz, telling The National Mail service that he "wouldn't heed having another stab at a Gorillaz record." 2 months later he reported that he had "been writing quite a lot of songs on the route for Gorillaz". and at the end of 2014 confirmed in an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald that he was planning to record another Gorillaz anthology. Speaking virtually his human relationship with Hewlett, Albarn said that the pair's well-publicised fall-out had helped their relationship in the long term. Hewlett described the moment when he and Albarn agreed to keep Gorillaz at an afterparty after one of Albarn's solo shows in 2014: "Nosotros'd had a scrap to drink, and he said, 'Do yous want to practice some other one?' And I said, 'Practice y'all?' and he said, 'Do you?' And I said, 'Yeah, certain.' I started work on it straight away, learning to draw the characters again. I played around past myself for eight months while he was performing with Blur in 2015."
American hip-hop and house producer The Twilite Tone co-produced the band'due south fifth album Humanz.
Recording sessions for the band'southward 5th studio anthology Humanz began in late 2015 and continued through 2016, taking place in London, New York Metropolis, Paris and Jamaica. Albarn enlisted American hip-hop and house producer Anthony Khan, known by his stage name The Twilite Tone, to co-produce the anthology. Albarn chose Khan from a list of possible producers compiled past Parlophone, the ring'south tape label later on Albarn and Khan spoke via Skype. Humanz was also co-produced past Remi Kabaka Jr., a friend of Albarn's who had worked with him in the not-profit musical system Africa Express and as well has been the voice actor for the Gorillaz virtual band fellow member Russel Hobbs since 2000. In conceptualizing the album, Albarn and Khan envisioned Humanz every bit being the soundtrack for "a political party for the end of the globe", with Albarn specifically imagining a hereafter in which Donald Trump won the 2016 U.South. presidential ballot as context for the anthology'south narrative (Trump becoming president was withal considered an unlikely event at the fourth dimension of recording), explaining "Permit's use that as a kind of dark fantasy for this record, let's imagine the dark Donald Trump wins the ballot and how we're all going to feel that night." Khan stated that "The idea of Donald Trump being president immune us to create a narrative together. I suggested that the album should be nigh joy, pain and urgency. That was to be our state of listen before nosotros even touched a keyboard or an MPC. Especially in American music, dare I say blackness music, there's a way of communicating joy that at the same time allows you lot to feel the struggle the person has been through. And the urgency is at that place considering something needs to be washed. And so that was the mantra. I wanted to blend Damon, a Briton, with the joy and pain and struggle that African-American music can express." Humanz once more featured a big cast of featured artists, including Popcaan, Vince Staples, DRAM, Jehnny Beth, Pusha T, Peven Everett, Danny Brown, Grace Jones and Mavis Staples, among others. The showtime track from the album released publicly was "Hallelujah Money" featuring Benjamin Clementine, released on 20 January 2017 with an accompanying video featuring Clementine. While non an official single, Albarn explained that the band chose to release the rails on the day of Trump's inauguration because "It was meant to be something sung at the imaginary inauguration of Donald Trump, which turned out to be the real inauguration of Donald Trump, so nosotros released it because we had imagined that happening and it did happen."
Gorillaz (with Albarn to the left) on phase at the Brixton Academy in London, June 2017.
Humanz was released on 28 April 2017, the band's first new studio album in seven years. Featuring a "modern-sounding urban hip-hop/R&B sensibility", the album debuted at #two on both the UK Album charts and the United states of america Billboard 200. Humanz received generally positive reviews from critics, although received some criticism from fans and critics for what was perceived as a macerated presence from Albarn in dissimilarity to the abundance of featured artists. The album was released in both standard and deluxe editions, with the deluxe edition featuring an additional half dozen bonus tracks and was promoted past the lead unmarried "Saturnz Barz" featuring Popcaan and the later single "Strobelite" featuring Peven Everett. The Hewlett-directed music video for "Saturnz Barz" made use of YouTube's 360-degree video format and reportedly toll $800,000 to create.
The band embarked on the Humanz Tour to support the anthology from the summer of 2017 to early 2018. Like the band'south previous tour, the Humanz Tour featured the alive band in total view of the audience with a big screen behind them displaying Hewlett-created visuals and featured several of the different collaborative artists from the band's history. At 53 shows, the Humanz Bout was the largest in the ring's history and featured setlists including a wide variety of songs from the band's dorsum catalog. The tour was preceded by a handful of European warm-up shows, including the first Demon Dayz Festival held on 10 June 2017 at the Dreamland Margate theme park, a Gorillaz curated music festival which was after repeated in Los Angeles in October 2018. On 8 June 2017 the band released the non-album single "Sleeping Pulverisation" with an accompanying music video and on 3 Nov 2017 a "Super Palatial" version of Humanz, featuring an boosted 14 unreleased tracks from the album's sessions, including culling versions of previously released songs besides as the single "Garage Palace" featuring Little Simz.
The Now Now (2018–nineteen) [ ]
Albarn continued recording while on the road during the Humanz Tour, and mentioned in an interview with Q Magazine in September 2017 that he was planning on releasing the material as a futurity Gorillaz album. Comparing the production of the anthology to The Fall, which was as well recorded while the band was on tour, Albarn mentioned that "It volition be a more complete record than The Autumn, but hopefully have that spontaneity." Albarn signaled his want to consummate and release the anthology quickly, adding that "I really similar the idea of making new music and playing information technology live almost simultaneously" and "If we're going to practice more Gorillaz we don't desire to wait seven years because, y'know, we're getting on a scrap now. The band afterward debuted a new song "Idaho", which was later included on the album, at a concert in Seattle on thirty September 2017 with Albarn saying it had been written in the days prior.
During a break in the Humanz Tour in February 2018, Albarn returned to London where he worked with producer James Ford, known for his piece of work with Chill Monkeys and Florence and the Car, and Kabaka Jr. to end the newly written fabric, resulting in the band's sixth studio anthology The Now Now released on 29 June 2018. Featuring "unproblematic, by and large upbeat songs" and 1980s new wave influences, the anthology was noted for its distinctly pocket-size listing of featured artists compared to previous Gorillaz work, with simply ii tracks featuring any outside artists (the anthology's lead single "Humility" featuring George Benson and "Hollywood" featuring Snoop Dogg and Jamie Principle). Albarn mentioned that the few numbers of featured artists was partially due to the album's quick product, which in turn was a upshot of Albarn wanting to terminate the anthology earlier the band'south touring schedule resumed: "We've been very lucky to be offered all the festivals this yr on the back of the last tape Humanz... but I didn't want to practise that unless I had something new to work with, so the only option was to make another tape actually speedily and not have lots of guests on information technology, considering that takes a long time to organize; just do it all myself, actually." Albarn likewise explained that with The Now Now he sought to make a Gorillaz album "where I'k just singing for once" and that the album is "pretty much just me singing, very sort of in the globe of 2-D."
Gorillaz performing at Barclays Center, New York City on The Now Now Tour in Oct 2018.
In the fictional Gorillaz storyline, the band introduced Ace from Cartoon Network'southward blithe series The Powerpuff Girls every bit a temporary bassist of the band during The Now Now album wheel, filling in for the imprisoned Murdoc Niccals.[99] Explaining the crossover in an interview with the BBC, Albarn said "We were massive fans of The Powerpuff Girls when they came out, the energy of that cartoon was really absurd, and we kind of know the creator of information technology (Craig McCracken). Information technology was a very organic thing."
The band'south remaining 2018 live dates were billed as The Now Now Tour to support the album, and included a operation in Tokyo on 22 June 2018 billed equally "The At present Now World Premiere" in which the band played the full album live for the beginning and only time, a performance which was later broadcast by Boiler Room. On xvi December 2019, the documentary Gorillaz: Reject False Icons was screened worldwide on a one-24-hour interval theatrical release. Filmed and directed by Hewlett'south son Denholm, the documentary showcases a behind-the-scenes look at the production of Humanz and The Now At present besides as the album'southward associated tours. One week after the film'due south theatrical release, a "Managing director's Cut" version of the film featuring boosted footage was released on the official Gorillaz YouTube channel in three parts. In the credits for Reject Faux Icons, Kabaka Jr. was listed as an official member of the band (labeled as "A&R/Producer") aslope Albarn and Hewlett for the first fourth dimension.
Song Machine, Flavor 1: Strange Timez (2020) [ ]
Hewlett (left) and Albarn (right) pictured with the animated band members in a 2020 publicity photo for Song Machine.
On 29 January 2020, the ring announced its new project Song Machine. Eschewing the typical anthology format of releasing music, Song Car is instead a spider web series that sees the band releasing one new song a month every bit "episodes" to the series, with xi episodes releasing to incorporate the first "season" of Vocal Car.[107][108] Elaborating on the idea behind Song Automobile in a radio interview shortly later the announcement of the project, Albarn explained that "Nosotros no longer kind of run across ourselves as constrained to making albums. We can now make episodes and seasons."[109] Each episode features previously unannounced guest musicians on new Gorillaz material, with the outset being "Momentary Bliss", which was released on 31 Jan and features both British rapper Slowthai and the Kent-based punk stone duo Slaves.
Upon the premiere of "Momentary Bliss", Albarn revealed that the group had been in the studio with Schoolboy Q and Sampa the Great amidst others, although he did say that these songs were likely to exist saved for future episodes of Song Machine.[111] The group besides teased a possible collaboration with Australian ring Tame Impala on Instagram.
On 27 Feb, the band released the second episode of Song Machine entitled "Désolé". The vocal features Malian vocalizer Fatoumata Diawara. The tertiary episode, "Aries," released on 9 Apr and featured Peter Hook and Georgia. The 4th track "How Far?" featuring Tony Allen and Skepta was released 2 May. This song was released without an accompanying music video as a tribute to Allen, who died on thirty April.
On 26 May, Gorillaz announced the release of a new volume titled Gorillaz Almanac. The book comes in three editions: standard, palatial and super palatial, all of which are set to release on 23 Oct with a concrete release of flavor i of Song Automobile included with each re-create.
On ix June, the band released "Friday 13th", the 4th episode of Song Motorcar. The track features French-British rapper Octavian.
On 20 July, the band released "Pac-Human being", the fifth episode of Vocal Motorcar, in honor of Pac-Man's 40th anniversary. The track features American rapper Schoolboy Q.
On nine September, the ring released "Strange Timez", the 6th episode of Song Machine. The rails features Robert Smith, from The Cure. Gorillaz too announced the title and tracklist for Song Automobile, Flavor I: Strange Timez, released on 23 Oct 2020, featuring further guest appearances from Elton John, 6lack, JPEGMafia, Kano, Roxani Arias, Moonchild Sanelly and Chai, among others.
On i October, the band released "The Pinkish Phantom", the seventh episode of Vocal Auto. The track features Elton John and American rapper 6lack.
Before the release of Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez, Gorillaz started a radio show on Apple Music called Song Motorcar Radio where each virtual character has a turn to invite special guests and play some of their favourite tunes.
A few days from the release of Song Auto, Season One: Foreign Timez, Albarn confirmed that the band already has a song for Season Two of Song Machine prepared for release, and as well mentioned that the second part of the project will be released earlier than expected.
On v November, the band released "The Valley of the Pagans", the 8th episode of Song Machine. The track features American singer Beck. The music video is somewhat notorious for existence the beginning major studio production filmed in Grand Theft Auto V. The video ends with a reference to previous album, Plastic Beach. For unknown reasons, the music video on the official Gorillaz YouTube channel was fix to private simply a few days afterward its initial premiere.
On 24 December, the ring released "The Lost Chord", the ninth and final episode for the get-go season of Song Machine. The runway feautures British vocalizer Leee John.
Style and legacy [ ]
Writers and critics take variously described Gorillaz as art pop, alternative rock, hip hop, electronic, trip hop, pop, night pop, alternative hip hop, rap rock, indie stone, bedroom popular, dance-stone, new moving ridge, funk, worldbeat, and experimental stone. The band's artful and general approach has been described as postmodern. According to AllMusic Gorillaz alloy Britpop and hip-hop, while The Guardian described the ring as "a sort of dub/hip-hop/lo-fi indie/world music hybrid". According to PopMatters, the ring's early work foreshadowed "the melding of hip-hop, stone, and electronic elements in pop music" that grew in significance in the adjacent decade.
"Influencing to united states, is the greatest achievement of Gorillaz. It's that we know that a very large pct of our audience are kids, who go on gorillaz.com, who get on gorillaz-unofficial.com, and through seeing the cartoons and hearing the tune, buying the record, are finding out about this stuff that they knew zilch about. So they're learning about Vlad The Impaler, or Ronald Searle, or The Specials... so information technology's like an teaching. They really become into it. And they notice it, the music we grew up on." - Jamie Hewlett
Gorillaz' primary musical influences include Massive Attack, The Specials, Big Audio Dynamite, Public Image Ltd, Tom Tom Guild, Fun Boy Three, Unkle, A Tribe Called Quest, and De La Soul, besides equally musicians such as The Human League, The Kinks, XTC, Uncomplicated Minds, Sonic Youth, Pavement, Beck, Wire, Fela Kuti, Sly and The Family Stone, Earth Wind and Fire, Augustus Pablo, Zapp, and DJ Kool Herc. Gorillaz' principal visual influences include Hanna-Barbera, Looney Tunes, Mad magazine, The Simpsons, Castle in the Sky, Akira, 2000 Advertisement, Métal hurlant (Heavy Metal), and Liquid Television. Furthermore, Hewlett has as well cited European artists such as Carl Giles, Ronald Searle, Moebius, Tanino Liberatore, Mike McMahon, and Brendan McCarthy. The thought for Gorillaz was inspired by the many drawing bands that came before them in the 1960s such as The Assistant Splits, The Archies, Josie and The Pussycats, and Alvin and The Chipmunks, and real bands with fictional phase personas similar ABC (circa How to Be a ... Zillionaire!) and Silicon Teens.
Musical artists who accept been influenced by Gorillaz include Major Lazer, Dethklok, Rat Boy, Chromeo, Flume, Foster the People, The 1975, 5 Seconds of Summer, Awolnation, Paramore, Grimes, Kesha, A.G. Cook, Finneas, Oliver Tree, Flatbush Zombies, Vic Mensa, IDK, Trippie Redd, The Internet, ASAP Rocky, Lupe Fiasco, Brockhampton and Odd Future. Gorillaz have besides influenced blithe series such equally The Amazing World of Gumball, Glitch Techs, Ascension of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Motorcity, Tron: Uprising, Teen Titans, and Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, as well as video games like Borderlands, Dusk Overdrive, No Straight Roads, Battlefield, and League of Legends.
Gorillaz accept collaborated with a number of brands, including Motorola, O2, Internet Explorer 9, Antipodal, and Jaguar Cars. They accept too been featured in fashion magazines such every bit Maxim, Nylon, and Numéro. The ring'southward use of the internet and digital media for promotion as early every bit 2000 has been touched on in retrospective reviews for beingness ahead of its fourth dimension. Dazed magazine has summarised Gorillaz's impact as "completely reinventing the notion of what a band could exist."
Members [ ]
Non-Virtual members [ ]
- Damon Albarn – vocals, instrumentation, songwriting, music production (1998–present)
- Jamie Hewlett – artwork, visuals, songwriting, FX, character design, video direction (1998–present)
- Remi Kabaka Jr. – production, percussion, drum programming (2016–nowadays)
Virtual members [ ]
- ii-D – lead vocals, keyboards, melodica, occasionally guitar, piano (1998–present)
- Murdoc Niccals – bass, drum machine (1998–present)[b]
- Noodle – guitar, keyboards, occasionally vocals (1998–2006; 2010–present)
- Russel Hobbs – drums, percussion (1998–2006; 2012–nowadays)
Former virtual members [ ]
- Paula Cracker – guitar (1998)
- Cyborg Noodle – guitar (2008-2010)
- Ace – bass (2018)
Live Band Members [ ]
| 2001-2002 (Gorillaz Alive) |
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| 2005-2006 (Demon Days Live) |
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| 2010 (Escape to Plastic Beach Tour) |
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| 2017-2018 (Humanz Tour and The At present Now Tour) |
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| 2020-2021 (Song Car Tour) |
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Discography [ ]
Albums [ ]
- Gorillaz
- G-Sides
- Laika Come Home
- Demon Days
- D Sides
- Plastic Beach
- The Fall
- Humanz
- The At present Now
- Vocal Machine Flavor Ane: Strange Timez
EPs [ ]
- Tomorrow Comes Today
- Meanwhile EP
Singles [ ]
- "Clint Eastwood"
- "nineteen-2000"
- "Rock The House"
- "911"
- "Tomorrow Comes Today"
- "Li'l Dub Chefin'"
- "Feel Practiced Inc."
- "Dare"
- "Muddy Harry"
- "El Mañana/Kids With Guns"
- "Stylo"
- "On Melancholy Hill"
- "Rhinestone Eyes"
- "Revolving Doors/Amarillo"
- "Saturnz Barz"
- "Ascension"
- "Andromeda"
- "Let Me Out"
- "The Apprentice"
- "Strobelite"
- "Garage Palace"
- "Sleeping Powder"
- "Humility"
- "Lake Zurich"
- "Sorcererz"
- "Burn Flies"
- "Hollywood"
- "Tranz"
- "Momentary Bliss"
- "Désolé"
- "How Far?"
- "Friday 13th"
- "Aries"
- "Pac-Man"
- "Strange Timez"
- "The Pink Phantom"
- "The Valley Of The Pagans"
Tours [ ]
- Gorillaz Live (2001–2002)
- Demon Days Alive (2005–2006)
- Escape to Plastic Beach Tour (2010)
- Humanz Tour (2017–2018)
- The Now At present Tour (2018)
- Song Automobile Bout (2021)
Awards and nominations [ ]
Gorillaz have received eleven BRIT Accolade nominations: half dozen in 2002, two in 2006, one in 2011, one in 2018 and one in 2019. In 2006, Gorillaz received their only Grammy Award, the All-time Popular Collaboration with Vocals award for the song "Experience Good Inc." The ring has received xiv nominations from the MTV Europe Music Awards, winning three of them: Best Dance Act and All-time Song for "Clint Eastwood" in 2001, and Best Group in 2005. At the MTV Video Music Awards, Gorillaz received both the All-time Special Furnishings and Breakthrough Video awards for "Feel Practiced Inc." in 2005. Overall, Gorillaz have received 26 awards from 79 nominations.
Appears On [ ]
Compilations [ ]
- DFA Compilation
- Help:A Day In The Life
Soundtracks [ ]
Mix CDs [ ]
- Dub Club: Aila's Dub Club Xmas
Radio Shows [ ]
- 50 Skidillion Watts Of Skillful Volition Episode 4
Further Reading [ ]
- Wikipedia Page
- Gorillaz Wiki
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Source: https://music.fandom.com/wiki/Gorillaz
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