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Gorillaz

May 04, 2023

For the album, see Gorillaz (album).

Gorillaz are an English virtual band formed in 1998 by musician Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett, from London. The band primarily consists of four fictional members: 2-D (vocals, keyboards), Murdoc Niccals (bass guitar), Noodle (guitar, keyboards, vocals), and Russel Hobbs (drums). Their universe is presented in media such as music videos, interviews, comic strips and short cartoons. Gorillaz' music has featured collaborations with a wide range of featured artists, with Albarn as the only permanent musical contributor.

Gorillaz
Left to right: Russel Hobbs, Murdoc Niccals, Noodle, and 2-D (2022 art)
Background information
OriginLondon, England
Genres
Years active1998–present (hiatus: 2012–2015)
Labels
MembersMurdoc Niccals
2-D
Noodle
Russel Hobbs
Past membersPaula Cracker
Cyborg Noodle
Ace
Websitegorillaz.com

With Gorillaz, Albarn departed from the distinct Britpop sound of his band Blur, exploring a variety of musical styles including hip hop, electronic and world music.[1] The band's 2001 debut album, Gorillaz, which features dub, Latin and punk influences, went triple platinum in the UK and double platinum in Europe, with sales driven by the success of the lead single, "Clint Eastwood". Their second studio album, Demon Days (2005), went six times platinum in the UK[2] and double platinum in the US, and spawned the successful lead single "Feel Good Inc."[3][4][5] The band's third album, Plastic Beach (2010), features environmentalist themes, synth-pop elements[6] and an expanded roster of featured artists. Their fourth album, The Fall, was recorded on the road during the Escape to Plastic Beach Tour and released on 25 December 2010.

In 2015, after over 10 years providing the voice of Russel, Remi Kabaka Jr. became a music producer for the band.[7] Their fifth album, Humanz (2017), features a wide array of guest artists,[8] while its follow-up, The Now Now (2018), focuses musically on Albarn. In 2020, Gorillaz started the Song Machine project, a music-based web series with episodes that consist of standalone singles and accompanying music videos featuring different guests, collected into their seventh album, Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez (2020). The band's eighth studio album, Cracker Island (2023), met generally positive reviews as a refinement of their usual style.

Gorillaz has presented itself live in a variety of different ways throughout its history, such as hiding the touring band from the audience's view in the early years of the project, projecting animated band members on stage via computer graphics and traditional live touring featuring a fully visible live band.[9] The band have sold over 33 million records worldwide and are cited by Guinness World Records as the world's "Most Successful Virtual Band".[10] They have won a Grammy Award, two MTV Video Music Awards, an NME Award and four MTV Europe Music Awards.[11] They have also been nominated for 11 Brit Awards and won Best British Group at the 2018 Brit Awards.[12][13]

History

Creation (1998–2000)

 
 
Musician Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett, the co-creators of Gorillaz.

Musician Damon Albarn and comic artist Jamie Hewlett met in 1990 when guitarist Graham Coxon, a fan of Hewlett's work, asked him to interview Blur, which Albarn and Coxon had recently formed.[14] The interview was published in Deadline magazine, home of Hewlett's 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 after Hewlett began seeing Coxon's ex-girlfriend Jane Olliver.[14] Despite this, Albarn and Hewlett started sharing a flat on Westbourne Grove in London in 1997.[15] Hewlett had recently broken up with Olliver and Albarn was at the end of his highly publicised relationship with Justine Frischmann of Elastica.[14]

The idea to create Gorillaz came about when Albarn and Hewlett were watching MTV. Hewlett said, "If you watch MTV for too long, it's a bit like hell – there's nothing of substance there. So we got this idea for a virtual band, something that would be a comment on that."[16] Albarn recalled the idea similarly, saying "This was the beginning of the boy band sort of explosion... and it just felt so manufactured. And we were like, well let's make a manufactured band but make it kind of interesting."[17] The band originally identified themselves as "Gorilla" and the first song they recorded was "Ghost Train",[18] which was later released as a B-side on their single "Rock the House". The band's visual style is thought to have evolved from The 16s, a rejected comic strip Hewlett conceived with Tank Girl co-creator Alan Martin.[19]

Although not released under the Gorillaz name, Albarn has said that "one of the first ever Gorillaz tunes" was Blur's 1997 single "On Your Own", which was released for their fifth studio album Blur.[20]

Gorillaz (2001–2002)

 
"Clint Eastwood"
"Clint Eastwood" exemplifies the mix of musical styles found on the band's debut album, combining hip hop, electronic and dub influences. The verses are rapped by Del the Funky Homosapien and the chorus is sung by Damon Albarn.
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From 1998 to 2000, Albarn recorded for Gorillaz' self-titled debut album at his newly opened Studio 13 in London as 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 mostly of tracks which later appeared on the album, and it also included the band's first music video for "Tomorrow Comes Today", which introduced the virtual band members for the first 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: "One of the reasons I began Gorillaz is I had a lot of rhythms I never thought I could use with Blur. A lot of that stuff never really seemed to manifest itself in the music we made together as Blur."[22] Albarn originally began work on the album by himself, however 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's focus. So I just rang him and asked whether he was interested in helping me finish it off."[22] Nakamura and Albarn had recently collaborated on Deltron 3030, the debut album by the hip-hop supergroup of the same name featuring rapper Del the Funky Homosapien and DJ Kid Koala, both of whom Nakamura recruited to assist in finishing Gorillaz material. Del featured on two tracks on the album, including the lead single "Clint Eastwood", while Kid Koala contributed turntables to various tracks.[21] The album featured additional collaborations with Ibrahim Ferrer of Buena Vista Social Club, Miho Hatori of Cibo Matto and Tina Weymouth of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club, representing a pattern of collaboration with a wide range of artists which later became a staple of Gorillaz as a project.

 
American hip-hop producer Dan "the Automator" Nakamura produced the band's debut album.

Gorillaz was released on 26 March 2001 and was a major commercial success, debuting at #3 on the UK Albums Chart and #14 on the US Billboard 200, going on to sell over 7 million copies worldwide, powered by the success of the "Clint Eastwood" single.[23][24][25][26] 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 single featuring a music video directed by Hewlett starring the virtual members. Hewlett also helmed the design of the band's website, which was presented as an interactive tour of the band's fictional "Kong Studios" home and recording studio, featuring interactive games and explorative elements.[27] Following the release of the album, the band embarked on a brief tour of Europe, Japan and the United States to support the album in which a touring band featuring Albarn played completely obscured behind a giant screen on which Hewlett's accompanying visuals were projected. The virtual band member's voice actors were also present at some shows and spoke live to the audience to give the impression that the fictional band was present on stage. In later interviews, Albarn described the band's first tour as difficult due to the limitations imposed by the band playing behind a screen: "For someone who had just spent the last ten years out front being a frontman [with Blur], it was a really weird experience. And I have to say, some nights I just wanted to get a knife and just cut [the screen] and stick my head through."[28] The album was followed by the B-sides compilation G-Sides released in December 2001.

On 7 December 2001, the band released the single "911" a collaboration with hip hop group D12 (without Eminem) and singer Terry Hall of the Specials about the September 11 attacks.[29] At the 2002 Brit Awards the virtual members of Gorillaz "performed" for the first time, appearing in 3D animation on four large screens along with rap accompaniment by Phi Life Cypher, a production which reportedly cost £300,000 to create.[30] The band were nominated for four Brit Awards, including Best British Group, Best British Album and British Breakthrough Act,[31] but did not win any awards.[32]

On 1 July 2002, a remix album titled Laika Come Home was released, containing most of the tracks from Gorillaz remixed in dub and reggae style by the DJ group Spacemonkeyz.[33] On 18 November 2002, the band released the DVD Phase One: Celebrity Take Down, which contained all of the band's released visual content up to that point along with other extras.[34]

After the success of the debut album, Albarn and Hewlett briefly explored the possibility of creating a Gorillaz theatrical film, but Hewlett claimed the duo later lost interest: "We lost all interest in doing it as soon as we started meeting with studios and talking to these Hollywood executive types, we just weren't on the same page. We said, fuck it, we'll sit on the idea until we can do it ourselves, and maybe even raise the money ourselves."[35]

Demon Days (2003–2008)

Albarn spent the majority of 2003 on tour with Blur in support of their newly released album Think Tank; however, upon completion of the tour, he decided to return to Gorillaz, reuniting with Hewlett to prepare for a second album. Hewlett explained that the duo chose to continue Gorillaz to prove that the project was not "a gimmick": "If you do it again, it's no longer a gimmick, and if it works then we've proved a point."[36] 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 #6 on the US Billboard 200, and has since gone six times platinum in the UK,[2] double platinum in the United States,[37] and triple platinum in Australia,[38] outperforming sales of the first album and becoming the band's most successful album to date.[39] The album's success was partially driven by the success of the lead single "Feel Good Inc." featuring hip-hop group De La Soul, which topped Billboard's Alternative Songs chart in the U.S. for eight consecutive weeks and was featured in a commercial for Apple's iPod.[40] The album was also supported by the later singles "Dare", "Dirty Harry", and the double A-side "Kids with Guns" / "El Mañana".

 
Albarn asked Danger Mouse to produce the band's second album Demon Days after hearing his mashup album The Grey Album.

Demon Days found the band taking a darker tone, partially influenced by a train journey Albarn had taken with his family through impoverished rural China.[41] Albarn described the album as a concept album: "The whole album kind of tells the story of the night — staying up during the night — but it's also an allegory. It's what we're living in basically, the world in a state of night."[42] Believing that the album needed "a slightly different approach" compared to the first album, Albarn enlisted American producer Brian Burton, better known by his stage name Danger Mouse, to produce the album, whom Albarn praised as "one of the best young producers in the world" after hearing his 2004 mashup album The Grey Album.[42] Burton felt he and Albarn had a high degree of affinity with each other, stating in an interview on the creation of the album: "We never had any arguments. We even have that finish-each-other's-sentences thing happening. There are a lot of the same influences between us, like Ennio Morricone and psychedelic pop-rock, but he has 10 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 ’80s, I can school him on a lot of hip-hop. We’re very competitive and pushed each other."[43] Similar to the first album, Demon Days features collaborations with several different artists, including Bootie Brown, Shaun Ryder, Ike Turner, MF Doom (who was recording with Danger Mouse as Danger Doom at the time) and Martina Topley-Bird, among others.[44]

 
The band performed in silhouette during the Demon Days Live performances (pictured here with De La Soul on stage).

The band chose to forgo traditional live touring in support of Demon Days, instead limiting live performance during the album cycle to a five night residency in November 2005 at the Manchester Opera House billed as Demon Days Live.[45] The concerts saw the band performing the album in full each night with most featured artists from the album present. Unlike the debut album's tour, the touring band was visible on stage in view of the audience but obscured by lighting in such a way that only their silhouettes were visible, with a screen above the band displaying Hewlett's visuals alongside each song.[46] The residency was later repeated in April 2006 at New York City's Apollo Theater and the Manchester performances were later released on DVD as Demon Days: Live at the Manchester Opera House.[47][48]

The virtual Gorillaz members "performed" at the 2005 MTV Europe Music Awards in November 2005[49] and again at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards in February 2006, appearing to perform on stage via Musion Eyeliner technology.[50] Albarn later expressed disappointment at the execution of the performance, citing the low volume level required so as to not disturb the technology: "That was tough... They started and it was so quiet cause they've got this piece of film that you've got to pull over the stage so any bass frequencies would just mess up the illusion completely."[51] At the Grammys, the band won Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for "Feel Good Inc.", which was also nominated for Record of the Year.[52] Albarn and Hewlett explored the idea of producing a full "live holographic tour" featuring the virtual Gorillaz appearing on stage with Munsion Eyeliner technology after the Grammys performance, but the tour was ultimately never realised due to the tremendous expense and logistical issues that would have resulted.[53]

In October 2006, the band released the book Rise of the Ogre. Presented as an autobiography of the band ostensibly written by the fictional members and expanding on the band's fictional backstory and universe, the book was actually written by official Gorillaz script writer and live drummer Cass Browne and featured new artwork by Hewlett.[54] Later the same month, the band released another DVD, Phase Two: Slowboat to Hades, compiling much of the band's visual content from the album cycle. A second 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.[55][56] In 2008, the documentary film Bananaz was released. Directed by Ceri Levy, the film documents the behind-the-scenes history of the band from 2000 to 2006.[57]

Plastic Beach and The Fall (2008–2012)

Albarn and Hewlett's next project together was the opera Monkey: Journey to the West based on the classical Chinese novel Journey to the West, which premiered at the 2007 Manchester International Festival. While not officially a Gorillaz project, Albarn mentioned in an interview that the project was "Gorillaz, really but we can't call it that for legal reasons".[58]

After completing work on Monkey in late 2007, Albarn and Hewlett began working on a new Gorillaz project entitled Carousel, described by Albarn as being about "the mystical aspects of Britain". Hewlett described Carousel in a 2008 interview as "even bigger and more difficult than Monkey... It's sort of like a film but not with one narrative story. There's many stories, told around a bigger story, set to music, and done in live action, animation, all different styles. Originally it was a film but now we think it's a film and it's a stage thing as well. Damon's written around 70 songs for it, and I’ve got great plans for the visuals."[59] The Carousel concept was eventually dropped with Albarn and Hewlett's work evolving into the third Gorillaz studio album, Plastic Beach.[60]

 
"Stylo"
"Stylo" featuring Mos Def and Bobby Womack showcases the electropop influences of the band's third album Plastic Beach
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Drawing upon environmentalist themes, Plastic Beach was inspired by the idea of a "secret floating island deep in the South Pacific... made up of the detritus, debris and washed up remnants of humanity" inspired by marine pollution such as plastic that Albarn had found in a beach near one of his homes in Devon as well as the Great Pacific garbage patch.[61] Unlike previous Gorillaz albums, Albarn made the decision to produce Plastic Beach by himself, with no co-producer.[62] The album was recorded throughout 2008 and 2009 in London, New York City and Syria although production of the album was briefly interrupted so that Albarn could join Blur for a reunion tour in the summer of 2009, with Albarn explaining "there's no way you can do that and that [Blur and Gorillaz] at the same time."[60] Plastic Beach saw Gorillaz move into a more electronic pop sound, with Albarn describing the album as "the most pop record I've ever made" and saying that he took special care to make the album's lyrics and melodies clear and focused compared to previous albums.[60] Plastic Beach also featured the largest cast of collaborators featured yet on a Gorillaz album, fulfilling Albarn's goal of "work[ing] with an incredibly eclectic, surprising cast of people"[60] including artists such as Snoop Dogg, Mos Def, Bobby Womack, Little Dragon, Lou Reed and Gruff Rhys among others, and also included orchestral contributions from Sinfonia Viva and the Lebanese National Symphony Orchestra.[62] Albarn explained the expanded roster of featured artists represented his and Hewlett's new vision of Gorillaz as a project, explaining in a July 2008 interview that "Gorillaz now to us is not like four animated characters any more – it's more like an organisation of people doing new projects... That's my ideal model."[63]

 
The 2010 live shows supporting Plastic Beach saw the touring band performing in full view of the audience for the first time.

Released on 3 March 2010, Plastic Beach debuted at #2 on both the UK Albums Chart and the US Billboard 200 chart, the band's highest placing debut chart position. The album was supported by the lead single "Stylo" featuring Mos Def and Bobby Womack released in January 2010 and the later singles "On Melancholy Hill" and "Rhinestone Eyes". To promote the album, the band embarked on the Escape to Plastic Beach Tour, the band's first world tour and also their first live performances in which the touring 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 touring band wearing naval attire, was later described by Albarn as having been extremely costly to produce, with the band barely breaking even on the shows, saying "I loved doing it, but economically it was a fucking disaster."[64] The tour 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.[65]

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 later released as the album The Fall, first released digitally on Christmas Day 2010 and later given a physical release on 19 April 2011.[66][67] The Fall is also co-produced by Stephen Sedgwick, the mixer engineer of the band.[68] Albarn said the album served as a diary of the American leg of the tour, explaining that the tracks were presented exactly as they were on the day they were written and recorded with no additional production or overdubs: "I literally made it on the road. I didn't write it before, I didn't prepare it. I just did it day by day as a kind of diary of my experience 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 it out now they'd know that I haven't done anything because I've been on tour ever since."[69] The band 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.[70][71]

On 23 February 2012, Gorillaz released "DoYaThing", a single to promote a Gorillaz-branded collection of Converse shoes which were released shortly after. The song was a part of Converse's "Three Artists, One Song" project, with the two additional collaborators being James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem and André 3000 of Outkast. Two different edits of the song were released: a four-and-a-half minute radio edit released on Converse's website and the full 13-minute version of the song released on the Gorillaz website. Hewlett returned to direct the single's music video, featuring fictionalized animated versions of Murphy and André interacting with the Gorillaz' virtual members.[72] The song received positive reviews from critics, with particular praise given to André 3000's contributions to the track.[73][74]

 
"DoYaThing"
"DoYaThing"
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In April 2012, Albarn told The Guardian that he and Hewlett had fallen out and that future Gorillaz projects were "unlikely".[75] Tension between the two had been building, partly due to a belief held by Hewlett that his contributions to Gorillaz were being minimised. Speaking to The Guardian in April 2017, Hewlett explained: "Damon had half the Clash on stage, and Bobby Womack and Mos Def and De La Soul, and fucking Hypnotic Brass Ensemble and Bashy and everyone else. It was the greatest band ever. And the screen on stage behind them seemed to get smaller every day. I'd say, ‘Have we got a new screen?’ and the tour manager was like, ‘No, it's the same screen.’ Because it seemed to me like it was getting smaller."[76] Albarn gave his side of the story in a separate interview, saying "I think 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 made a really good record and I was into it."[75] On 25 April 2012, in an interview with Metro, Albarn was more optimistic about Gorillaz' future, saying that once he had worked out his differences with Hewlett, he was sure that they would make another record.[77] In June 2013, Hewlett confirmed that he and Albarn planned to someday continue Gorillaz and record a follow-up album to Plastic Beach, saying "We'll come back to it when the time is right."[78][79]

Hiatus and Humanz (2012–2018)

Following the release of DoYaThing and the publicization of Albarn and Hewlett's fall-out in 2012, Gorillaz entered a multiyear hiatus. During the hiatus, Albarn released a solo album, Everyday Robots, scored stage productions and continued to record and tour with Blur, while Hewlett held art exhibitions and attempted to create a film project which was ultimately never realized.[80] While on tour in support of Everyday Robots in 2014, Albarn signaled openness to returning to Gorillaz, telling The National Post that he "wouldn't mind having another stab at a Gorillaz record".[81] Two months later he reported that he had "been writing quite a lot of songs on the road for Gorillaz".[82] and at the end of 2014 confirmed in an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald that he was planning to record another Gorillaz album.[83] Speaking about his relationship with Hewlett, Albarn said that the pair's well-publicised fall-out had helped their relationship in the long term.[84] Hewlett described the moment when he and Albarn agreed to continue Gorillaz at an afterparty after one of Albarn's solo shows in 2014: "We'd had a bit to drink, and he said, 'Do you want to do another one?' And I said, 'Do you?' and he said, 'Do you?' And I said, 'Yeah, sure.' I started work on it straight away, learning to draw the characters again. I played around by myself for eight months while he was performing with Blur in 2015."[85]

 
American hip-hop and house producer the Twilite Tone co-produced the band's fifth album Humanz.

Recording sessions for the band's fifth studio album, Humanz, began in late 2015 and continued through 2016, taking place in London, New York City, Paris and Jamaica.[86][87] Albarn enlisted American hip-hop and house producer Anthony Khan, known by his stage name the Twilite Tone, to co-produce the album. Albarn chose Khan from a list of possible producers compiled by Parlophone, the band's record label after Albarn and Khan spoke via Skype. Humanz was also co-produced by Remi Kabaka Jr., a friend of Albarn's who had worked with him in the non-profit musical organization Africa Express and also has been the voice actor for the Gorillaz virtual band member Russel Hobbs since 2000.[86][87] In conceptualizing the album, Albarn and Khan envisioned Humanz as being the soundtrack for "a party for the end of the world", with Albarn specifically imagining a future in which Donald Trump won the 2016 U.S. presidential election as context for the album's narrative (Trump becoming president was still considered an unlikely event at the time of recording), explaining "Let's use that as a kind of dark fantasy for this record, let's imagine the night Donald Trump wins the election and how we're all going to feel that night."[88] Khan stated that "The idea of Donald Trump being president allowed us to create a narrative together. I suggested that the album should be about joy, pain and urgency. That was to be our state of mind before we even touched a keyboard or an MPC. Especially in American music, dare I say black music, there's a way of communicating joy that at the same time allows you to feel the struggle the person has been through. And the urgency is there because something needs to be done. 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."[86] Humanz again featured a large 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 first track from the album released publicly was "Hallelujah Money" featuring Benjamin Clementine, released on 20 January 2017 with an accompanying video featuring Clementine. While not an official single, Albarn explained that the band chose to release the track 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 we released it because we had imagined that happening and it did happen."[89]

 
Gorillaz (with Albarn to the left) on stage at the Brixton Academy in London, June 2017.

Humanz was released on 28 April 2017, the band's first new studio album in 7 years. Featuring a "modern-sounding urban hip-hop/R&B sensibility",[86] the album debuted at #2 on both the UK Album charts and the US Billboard 200. Humanz received generally positive reviews from critics, although received some criticism from fans and critics for what was perceived as a diminished presence from Albarn in contrast to the abundance of featured artists.[90][91] The album was released in both standard and deluxe editions, with the deluxe edition featuring an additional 6 bonus tracks and was promoted by the lead single "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 cost $800,000 to create.[92]

The band embarked on the Humanz Tour to support the album from the summer of 2017 to early 2018. Like the band's previous tour, the Humanz Tour featured the touring band in full view of the audience with a large screen behind them displaying Hewlett-created visuals and featured several of the different collaborative artists from the band's history. 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 later repeated in Los Angeles in October 2018. On 8 June 2017 the band released the non-album single "Sleeping Powder" with an accompanying music video and on 3 November 2017 a "Super Deluxe" version of Humanz, featuring an additional 14 unreleased tracks from the album's sessions, including alternative versions of previously released songs as well as the single "Garage Palace" featuring Little Simz.

The Now Now (2018–2019)

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 future Gorillaz album. Comparing the production of the album to The Fall, which was also recorded while the band was on tour, Albarn mentioned that "It will be a more complete record than The Fall, but hopefully have that spontaneity."[93] Albarn signaled his desire to complete and release the album quickly, adding that "I really like the idea of making new music and playing it live almost simultaneously" and "If we're going to do more Gorillaz we don't want to wait seven years because, y'know, we're getting on a bit now.[93] The band later debuted a new song "Idaho", which was later included on the album, at a concert in Seattle on 30 September 2017 with Albarn saying it had been written in the days prior.[94]

During a break in the Humanz Tour in February 2018, Albarn returned to London where he worked with producer James Ford, known for his work with Arctic Monkeys and Florence and the Machine, and Kabaka Jr. to finish the newly written material, resulting in the band's sixth studio album, The Now Now, released on 29 June 2018. Featuring "simple, mostly upbeat songs" and 1980s new wave influences,[95] the album was noted for its distinctly small list of featured artists compared to previous Gorillaz work, with only two tracks featuring any outside artists (the album'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 production, which in turn was a result of Albarn wanting to finish the album before the band's touring schedule resumed: "We've been very lucky to be offered all the festivals this year on the back of the last record [Humanz]... but I didn't want to do that unless I had something new to work with, so the only option was to make another record really quickly and not have lots of guests on it, because that takes a long time to organize; just do it all myself, really."[96] Albarn also explained that with The Now Now he sought to make a Gorillaz album "where I'm just singing for once" and that the album is "pretty much just me singing, very sort of in the world of 2-D."[97]

 
Gorillaz performing at Barclays Center, New York City on The Now Now Tour in October 2018.

In the fictional Gorillaz storyline, the band introduced Ace from Cartoon Network's animated series The Powerpuff Girls as a temporary bassist of the band during The Now Now album cycle, filling in for the imprisoned Murdoc Niccals.[98] 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 cool, and we kind of know the creator of it (Craig McCracken). It was a very organic thing."[99]

The band's remaining 2018 live dates were billed as The Now Now Tour to support the album, and included a performance in Tokyo on 22 June 2018 billed as "The Now Now World Premiere" in which the band played the full album live for the first and only time, a performance which was later broadcast by Boiler Room.[100] On 16 December 2019, the documentary Gorillaz: Reject False Icons was screened worldwide on a one-day theatrical release. Filmed and directed by Hewlett's son Denholm, the documentary showcases a behind-the-scenes look at the production of Humanz and The Now Now as well as the album's associated tours.[101][102] One week after the film's theatrical release, a "Director's Cut" version of the film featuring additional footage was released on the official Gorillaz YouTube channel in three parts. In the credits for Reject False Icons, Kabaka Jr. was listed as an official member of the band (labeled as "A&R/Producer") alongside Albarn and Hewlett for the first time.[103][104][105]

Song Machine project and Meanwhile EP (2020–2021)

 
Hewlett (left) and Albarn (right) pictured with the animated band members in a 2020 publicity photo for Song Machine.

On 29 January 2020, the band announced its new project Song Machine. Eschewing the typical album format of releasing music, Song Machine is instead a web series that sees the band releasing one new song a month as "episodes" to the series, with 11 episodes releasing to comprise the first "season".[106][107] Elaborating on the idea behind Song Machine in a radio interview shortly after the announcement of the project, Albarn explained that "We no longer kind of see ourselves as constrained to making albums. We can now make episodes and seasons."[108] Each episode features previously unannounced guest musicians on new Gorillaz material, with the first being "Momentary Bliss", which was released on 31 January and features both British rapper Slowthai and the Kent-based punk rock duo Slaves.[109] Upon the premiere of "Momentary Bliss", Albarn revealed that the group had been in the studio with Schoolboy Q and Sampa the Great among others, although he did say that these songs were likely to be saved for future episodes of Song Machine.[110] The group also teased a possible collaboration with Australian band Tame Impala on Instagram.[111]

On 27 February, the band released the second episode of Song Machine entitled "Désolé". The song features Malian singer Fatoumata Diawara.[112] The third episode, "Aries", released on 9 April and featured Peter Hook and Georgia.[113] The fourth 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 30 April.[114] On 26 May, Gorillaz announced the release of a new book titled Gorillaz Almanac. The book comes in three editions: standard, deluxe and super deluxe, all of which were set to release on 23 October but has since been delayed to 22 December[needs update] with a physical release of season one of Song Machine included with each copy.[115] On 9 June, the band released "Friday 13th", the fourth episode of Song Machine. The track features French-British rapper Octavian.[116] On 20 July, the band released "Pac-Man", the fifth episode of Song Machine, in honour of Pac-Man's 40th anniversary.[117] The track features American rapper Schoolboy Q.[118]

On 9 September, the band released "Strange Timez", the sixth episode of Song Machine. The track features Robert Smith, from the Cure. Gorillaz also announced the title and tracklist for Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez, released on 23 October 2020, featuring further guest appearances from Elton John, 6lack, JPEGMafia, Kano, Roxani Arias, Moonchild Sanelly and Chai, among others.[119] On 1 October, the band released "The Pink Phantom", the seventh episode of Song Machine. The track features Elton John and American R&B recording artist 6lack.[120] Before the release of Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez, Gorillaz started a radio show on Apple Music called Song Machine 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 Machine, Season One: Strange Timez, Albarn confirmed that the band already has a song for Season Two of Song Machine prepared for release, and also mentioned that the second part of the project will be released earlier than expected.[121]

On 5 November, the band released "The Valley of the Pagans", the eighth episode of Song Machine. The track features American singer Beck. The music video is somewhat notorious for being the first major studio production filmed in Grand Theft Auto V. The video ends with a reference to previous album, Plastic Beach.[122] For unknown reasons, the music video on the official Gorillaz YouTube channel was set to private just a few days after its initial premiere. On 9 March 2021, Gorillaz uploaded an alternative version of the music video to their official YouTube channel, which does not feature any gameplay from Grand Theft Auto V.[123] On 24 December, the band released "The Lost Chord", the ninth and final episode of the first season of Song Machine. The track features British musician Leee John.

On 26 March 2021, the band celebrated its debut album's 20th anniversary with oncoming reissues of their catalog and teases of non-fungible tokens;[124] due to its impact on climate change, the latter was met with criticism by various sources and fans—some noting that the act contradicts the environmental themes of Plastic Beach. No non-fungible tokens have since released.[125] The band also announced a boxset, the G Collection, containing six of their studio albums—excluding The Fall—for Record Store Day.[126] On 10 August 2021, Gorillaz debuted three new songs, "Meanwhile" (featuring British rapper Jelani Blackman), "Jimmy Jimmy" (featuring British rapper AJ Tracey), and "Déjà Vu" (featuring Jamaican-British singer Alicaì Harley), during a free concert at The O2 Arena in London, England exclusively for National Health Service employees and their families. They then performed them again at the subsequent concert open to the public the next day (both of which served as the first live audience concerts of the Song Machine Tour).[127] These three songs were announced to be tracks from a new EP entitled Meanwhile, with the cover originally published on TikTok.[128]

World Tour and Cracker Island (2022–present)

On 17 September 2021, Albarn revealed that he had recorded a new Gorillaz song with Bad Bunny while in Jamaica, and, at the time, said it would be the first single for a new album, influenced by Latin America, releasing in 2022.[129] The concept for the album would later change, with the song being announced at a later date. On 31 August 2022, the name of this song was revealed to be "Tormenta".[130]

In November 2021, Albarn announced that an animated film based on the band was in the works at Netflix, but by February 2023, it had been cancelled.[131]

Throughout 2022, Gorillaz went on a world tour in South America, Europe, Australia, and North America, where they debuted new material.[132][133] In June 2022, the band began teasing the release of new material, with promotional displays and websites surfacing encouraging fans to sign up to be a part of "The Last Cult". The band released a new single (regularly performed on tour) called "Cracker Island", featuring Thundercat and produced with Greg Kurstin, on 22 June,[134] with the music video being released on 28 July.[135] Their scheduled performance at the first Splendour in the Grass festival in Queensland, Australia on 22 July was cancelled owing to torrential rain.[136] In July 2022, they played at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre as part of Illuminate Adelaide, supported by Moonchild Sanelly.[137] In August 2022, the band performed the new song "New Gold" (featuring Tame Impala and Bootie Brown) at All Points East in London,[138] and released it as their second single for their eighth studio album, announced on the same day to be titled Cracker Island (released on 24 February 2023).[139] The album, produced with Kurstin, also features appearances from Stevie Nicks, Bad Bunny, Beck, and Adeleye Omotayo.[140] On 4 November, the band released the third single from Cracker Island, "Baby Queen" (previously released on the FIFA 23 soundtrack).[141][142] On 8 December, the band released the album's fourth single, "Skinny Ape", alongside the announcement of two virtual shows in Times Square and Piccadilly Circus on 17 and 18 December, respectively.[143] On 27 January 2023, the album's fifth single, "Silent Running" featuring Adeleye Omotayo, was released, with a music video following on 8 February.[144][145] The album received mostly positive reviews, with Stephen Thomas Erlewine describing it as "less an exploration of new sonic territory so much as it is a reaffirmation of [Albarn's] strengths" with "a clean, efficient energy".[146][147]

On February 27, 2023, a deluxe version of Cracker Island was released with five bonus tracks. Previous collaborators Del the Funky Homosapien and De La Soul appeared on the deluxe version, as well as Brazilian artist MC Bin Laden.[148]

Style and legacy

Writers and critics have variously described Gorillaz as art pop,[149] alternative rock,[150] hip hop,[151] electronic,[152] trip hop,[153] pop,[154] dark pop,[155] alternative hip hop,[156] rap rock,[157] indie rock,[158] bedroom pop,[159] dance-rock,[160] new wave,[161] funk,[161] worldbeat,[1] and experimental rock.[162] The band's aesthetic and general approach has been described as postmodern.[1] According to AllMusic, Gorillaz blend Britpop and hip-hop,[163] while The Guardian described the band as "a sort of dub/hip-hop/lo-fi indie/world music hybrid".[164] According to PopMatters, the band's early work foreshadowed "the melding of hip-hop, rock, and electronic elements in pop music" that grew in significance in the next decade.[165]

"[Influencing] to us, is the greatest achievement of Gorillaz. It's that we know that a very large percentage of our audience are kids, who go on gorillaz.com, who go 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 nothing about. So they're learning about Vlad The Impaler, or Ronald Searle, or The Specials... so it's like an education. They really get into it. And they discover it, the music we grew up on."

- Jamie Hewlett, [166]

Gorillaz’ main musical influences include Fishmans, Massive Attack, the Specials, Big Audio Dynamite, Public Image Ltd, Tom Tom Club, Fun Boy Three, Unkle, A Tribe Called Quest, and fellow collaborators De La Soul,[167][168][169][170][171] as well as The Human League, The Kinks, XTC, Simple Minds, Sonic Youth, Pavement, Ween, Portishead, Beck, Wire, Fela Kuti, Sly and the Family Stone, Earth Wind and Fire, Augustus Pablo, Zapp, and DJ Kool Herc.[172][173][174] Gorillaz’ primary visual influences include Hanna-Barbera, Looney Tunes,[175] Mad magazine,[176][177] The Simpsons,[178] 2000 AD,[179] and Métal hurlant (Heavy Metal).[180] Furthermore, Hewlett has also cited European artists such as Carl Giles, Ronald Searle,[181][182] Moebius, Tanino Liberatore,[183] Mike McMahon,[184] and Brendan McCarthy.[185] The idea for Gorillaz was inspired by the many cartoon bands that came before them in the 1960s such as the Banana Splits, the Archies, Josie and the Pussycats, and Alvin and the Chipmunks, and real bands with fictional stage personas like ABC (circa How to Be a ... Zillionaire!) and Silicon Teens.[186][187]

Musical artists and bands who have been influenced by Gorillaz's work include Major Lazer,[188] Dethklok,[189][190] Rat Boy,[191] Chromeo,[192] Flume,[193] Foster the People,[194] The 1975,[195] 5 Seconds of Summer,[196] Awolnation,[197] Paramore,[198] Grimes,[199] Kesha,[200] A.G. Cook,[201] Finneas,[202] Oliver Tree,[203] Flatbush Zombies,[204] Vic Mensa,[205] IDK,[206] Trippie Redd,[207] The Internet,[208] ASAP Rocky,[209] Lupe Fiasco,[210] Brockhampton,[211] Odd Future[212] and Billie Eilish, who was joined by Albarn to sing her song, "Getting Older", and Gorillaz' song, "Feel Good Inc." with Posdnuos of De La Soul.[213] Gorillaz have also influenced animated series such as The Amazing World of Gumball,[214] Glitch Techs,[215] Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,[216] Motorcity, Tron: Uprising,[217] Teen Titans,[218] and Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts,[219] as well as video games like Borderlands,[220] Sunset Overdrive,[221] No Straight Roads,[222] Battlefield,[223] and League of Legends.[224]

Gorillaz have collaborated with a number of brands, including Motorola,[225] O2,[226] Internet Explorer 9,[227] Converse,[228] and Jaguar Cars.[229] They have also been featured in fashion magazines such as Maxim, Nylon, and Numéro.[230] The band's use of the internet and digital media for promotion as early as 2000 has been touched on in retrospective reviews for being ahead of its time.[231] Dazed magazine has summarised Gorillaz's impact as "completely reinvent[ing] the notion of what a band could be".[232]

Band members

Virtual members timeline

Touring members

2001–2002
(Gorillaz Live)
2005–2006
(Demon Days Live)
  • Damon Albarn – lead vocals, piano, melodica
  • Mike Smith – keyboards
  • Cass Browne – drums
  • Darren Galea – turntables
  • Simon Tong – guitar
  • Karl Vanden Bossche – percussion
  • Simon Jones – rhythm guitar
  • Morgan Nicholls – bass
2010
(Escape to Plastic Beach Tour)
  • Damon Albarn – lead vocals, keyboards, piano, melodica, acoustic guitar
  • Mike Smith – keyboards
  • Cass Browne – drums, drum machine
  • Simon Tong – lead guitar (replaced Jeff Wootton on some dates)
  • Mick Jones – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
  • Paul Simonon – bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Jesse Hackett – keyboards
  • Jeff Wootton – lead guitar
  • Gabriel Wallace – drums, percussion
2017–2018
(Humanz Tour and The Now Now Tour)
  • Damon Albarn – lead vocals, piano, keyboards, rhythm guitar
  • Mike Smith – keyboards, backing vocals
  • Karl Vanden Bossche – electronic drums, percussion
  • Jesse Hackett – keyboards
  • Jeff Wootton – lead guitar
  • Gabriel Wallace – drums, percussion
  • Seye Adelekan – bass guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
2020–22
(Song Machine Tour and World Tour 2022)
  • Damon Albarn – lead vocals, piano, keyboards, rhythm guitar
  • Mike Smith – keyboards, backing vocals
  • Karl Vanden Bossche – drums, percussion
  • Jesse Hackett – keyboards
  • Jeff Wootton – lead guitar
  • Seye Adelekan – bass guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
  • Remi Kabaka Jr. – percussion
  • Femi Koleoso – drums

Touring members timeline

Discography

Main article: Gorillaz discography

Studio albums

Tours

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Gorillaz

Explanatory notes

  1. ^ Murdoc was briefly in hiatus from the band in 2018 during the course of The Now Now due to being in jail, leading to Ace becoming his temporary replacement.[233]

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gorillaz, album, album, english, virtual, band, formed, 1998, musician, damon, albarn, artist, jamie, hewlett, from, london, band, primarily, consists, four, fictional, members, vocals, keyboards, murdoc, niccals, bass, guitar, noodle, guitar, keyboards, vocal. For the album see Gorillaz album Gorillaz are an English virtual band formed in 1998 by musician Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett from London The band primarily consists of four fictional members 2 D vocals keyboards Murdoc Niccals bass guitar Noodle guitar keyboards vocals and Russel Hobbs drums Their universe is presented in media such as music videos interviews comic strips and short cartoons Gorillaz music has featured collaborations with a wide range of featured artists with Albarn as the only permanent musical contributor GorillazLeft to right Russel Hobbs Murdoc Niccals Noodle and 2 D 2022 art Background informationOriginLondon EnglandGenresAlternative rock art pop electronic hip hop trip hopYears active1998 present hiatus 2012 2015 LabelsParlophone Virgin WarnerMembersMurdoc Niccals2 DNoodleRussel HobbsPast membersPaula CrackerCyborg NoodleAceWebsitegorillaz wbr comWith Gorillaz Albarn departed from the distinct Britpop sound of his band Blur exploring a variety of musical styles including hip hop electronic and world music 1 The band s 2001 debut album Gorillaz which features dub Latin and punk influences went triple platinum in the UK and double platinum in Europe with sales driven by the success of the lead single Clint Eastwood Their second studio album Demon Days 2005 went six times platinum in the UK 2 and double platinum in the US and spawned the successful lead single Feel Good Inc 3 4 5 The band s third album Plastic Beach 2010 features environmentalist themes synth pop elements 6 and an expanded roster of featured artists Their fourth album The Fall was recorded on the road during the Escape to Plastic Beach Tour and released on 25 December 2010 In 2015 after over 10 years providing the voice of Russel Remi Kabaka Jr became a music producer for the band 7 Their fifth album Humanz 2017 features a wide array of guest artists 8 while its follow up The Now Now 2018 focuses musically on Albarn In 2020 Gorillaz started the Song Machine project a music based web series with episodes that consist of standalone singles and accompanying music videos featuring different guests collected into their seventh album Song Machine Season One Strange Timez 2020 The band s eighth studio album Cracker Island 2023 met generally positive reviews as a refinement of their usual style Gorillaz has presented itself live in a variety of different ways throughout its history such as hiding the touring band from the audience s view in the early years of the project projecting animated band members on stage via computer graphics and traditional live touring featuring a fully visible live band 9 The band have sold over 33 million records worldwide and are cited by Guinness World Records as the world s Most Successful Virtual Band 10 They have won a Grammy Award two MTV Video Music Awards an NME Award and four MTV Europe Music Awards 11 They have also been nominated for 11 Brit Awards and won Best British Group at the 2018 Brit Awards 12 13 Contents 1 History 1 1 Creation 1998 2000 1 2 Gorillaz 2001 2002 1 3 Demon Days 2003 2008 1 4 Plastic Beach and The Fall 2008 2012 1 5 Hiatus and Humanz 2012 2018 1 6 The Now Now 2018 2019 1 7 Song Machine project and Meanwhile EP 2020 2021 1 8 World Tour and Cracker Island 2022 present 2 Style and legacy 3 Band members 3 1 Virtual members timeline 3 2 Touring members 3 3 Touring members timeline 4 Discography 5 Tours 6 Awards and nominations 7 Explanatory notes 8 References 9 External linksHistory EditCreation 1998 2000 Edit Musician Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett the co creators of Gorillaz Musician Damon Albarn and comic artist Jamie Hewlett met in 1990 when guitarist Graham Coxon a fan of Hewlett s work asked him to interview Blur which Albarn and Coxon had recently formed 14 The interview was published in Deadline magazine home of Hewlett s 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 after Hewlett began seeing Coxon s ex girlfriend Jane Olliver 14 Despite this Albarn and Hewlett started sharing a flat on Westbourne Grove in London in 1997 15 Hewlett had recently broken up with Olliver and Albarn was at the end of his highly publicised relationship with Justine Frischmann of Elastica 14 The idea to create Gorillaz came about when Albarn and Hewlett were watching MTV Hewlett said If you watch MTV for too long it s a bit like hell there s nothing of substance there So we got this idea for a virtual band something that would be a comment on that 16 Albarn recalled the idea similarly saying This was the beginning of the boy band sort of explosion and it just felt so manufactured And we were like well let s make a manufactured band but make it kind of interesting 17 The band originally identified themselves as Gorilla and the first song they recorded was Ghost Train 18 which was later released as a B side on their single Rock the House The band s visual style is thought to have evolved from The 16s a rejected comic strip Hewlett conceived with Tank Girl co creator Alan Martin 19 Although not released under the Gorillaz name Albarn has said that one of the first ever Gorillaz tunes was Blur s 1997 single On Your Own which was released for their fifth studio album Blur 20 Gorillaz 2001 2002 Edit Clint Eastwood source source track Clint Eastwood exemplifies the mix of musical styles found on the band s debut album combining hip hop electronic and dub influences The verses are rapped by Del the Funky Homosapien and the chorus is sung by Damon Albarn Problems playing this file See media help From 1998 to 2000 Albarn recorded for Gorillaz self titled debut album at his newly opened Studio 13 in London as 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 mostly of tracks which later appeared on the album and it also included the band s first music video for Tomorrow Comes Today which introduced the virtual band members for the first 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 One of the reasons I began Gorillaz is I had a lot of rhythms I never thought I could use with Blur A lot of that stuff never really seemed to manifest itself in the music we made together as Blur 22 Albarn originally began work on the album by himself however 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 s focus So I just rang him and asked whether he was interested in helping me finish it off 22 Nakamura and Albarn had recently collaborated on Deltron 3030 the debut album by the hip hop supergroup of the same name featuring rapper Del the Funky Homosapien and DJ Kid Koala both of whom Nakamura recruited to assist in finishing Gorillaz material Del featured on two tracks on the album including the lead single Clint Eastwood while Kid Koala contributed turntables to various tracks 21 The album featured additional collaborations with Ibrahim Ferrer of Buena Vista Social Club Miho Hatori of Cibo Matto and Tina Weymouth of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club representing a pattern of collaboration with a wide range of artists which later became a staple of Gorillaz as a project American hip hop producer Dan the Automator Nakamura produced the band s debut album Gorillaz was released on 26 March 2001 and was a major commercial success debuting at 3 on the UK Albums Chart and 14 on the US Billboard 200 going on to sell over 7 million copies worldwide powered by the success of the Clint Eastwood single 23 24 25 26 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 single featuring a music video directed by Hewlett starring the virtual members Hewlett also helmed the design of the band s website which was presented as an interactive tour of the band s fictional Kong Studios home and recording studio featuring interactive games and explorative elements 27 Following the release of the album the band embarked on a brief tour of Europe Japan and the United States to support the album in which a touring band featuring Albarn played completely obscured behind a giant screen on which Hewlett s accompanying visuals were projected The virtual band member s voice actors were also present at some shows and spoke live to the audience to give the impression that the fictional band was present on stage In later interviews Albarn described the band s first tour as difficult due to the limitations imposed by the band playing behind a screen For someone who had just spent the last ten years out front being a frontman with Blur it was a really weird experience And I have to say some nights I just wanted to get a knife and just cut the screen and stick my head through 28 The album was followed by the B sides compilation G Sides released in December 2001 On 7 December 2001 the band released the single 911 a collaboration with hip hop group D12 without Eminem and singer Terry Hall of the Specials about the September 11 attacks 29 At the 2002 Brit Awards the virtual members of Gorillaz performed for the first time appearing in 3D animation on four large screens along with rap accompaniment by Phi Life Cypher a production which reportedly cost 300 000 to create 30 The band were nominated for four Brit Awards including Best British Group Best British Album and British Breakthrough Act 31 but did not win any awards 32 On 1 July 2002 a remix album titled Laika Come Home was released containing most of the tracks from Gorillaz remixed in dub and reggae style by the DJ group Spacemonkeyz 33 On 18 November 2002 the band released the DVD Phase One Celebrity Take Down which contained all of the band s released visual content up to that point along with other extras 34 After the success of the debut album Albarn and Hewlett briefly explored the possibility of creating a Gorillaz theatrical film but Hewlett claimed the duo later lost interest We lost all interest in doing it as soon as we started meeting with studios and talking to these Hollywood executive types we just weren t on the same page We said fuck it we ll sit on the idea until we can do it ourselves and maybe even raise the money ourselves 35 Demon Days 2003 2008 Edit Albarn spent the majority of 2003 on tour with Blur in support of their newly released album Think Tank however upon completion of the tour he decided to return to Gorillaz reuniting with Hewlett to prepare for a second album Hewlett explained that the duo chose to continue Gorillaz to prove that the project was not a gimmick If you do it again it s no longer a gimmick and if it works then we ve proved a point 36 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 6 on the US Billboard 200 and has since gone six times platinum in the UK 2 double platinum in the United States 37 and triple platinum in Australia 38 outperforming sales of the first album and becoming the band s most successful album to date 39 The album s success was partially driven by the success of the lead single Feel Good Inc featuring hip hop group De La Soul which topped Billboard s Alternative Songs chart in the U S for eight consecutive weeks and was featured in a commercial for Apple s iPod 40 The album was also supported by the later singles Dare Dirty Harry and the double A side Kids with Guns El Manana Albarn asked Danger Mouse to produce the band s second album Demon Days after hearing his mashup album The Grey Album Demon Days found the band taking a darker tone partially influenced by a train journey Albarn had taken with his family through impoverished rural China 41 Albarn described the album as a concept album The whole album kind of tells the story of the night staying up during the night but it s also an allegory It s what we re living in basically the world in a state of night 42 Believing that the album needed a slightly different approach compared to the first album Albarn enlisted American producer Brian Burton better known by his stage name Danger Mouse to produce the album whom Albarn praised as one of the best young producers in the world after hearing his 2004 mashup album The Grey Album 42 Burton felt he and Albarn had a high degree of affinity with each other stating in an interview on the creation of the album We never had any arguments We even have that finish each other s sentences thing happening There are a lot of the same influences between us like Ennio Morricone and psychedelic pop rock but he has 10 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 80s I can school him on a lot of hip hop We re very competitive and pushed each other 43 Similar to the first album Demon Days features collaborations with several different artists including Bootie Brown Shaun Ryder Ike Turner MF Doom who was recording with Danger Mouse as Danger Doom at the time and Martina Topley Bird among others 44 The band performed in silhouette during the Demon Days Live performances pictured here with De La Soul on stage The band chose to forgo traditional live touring in support of Demon Days instead limiting live performance during the album cycle to a five night residency in November 2005 at the Manchester Opera House billed as Demon Days Live 45 The concerts saw the band performing the album in full each night with most featured artists from the album present Unlike the debut album s tour the touring band was visible on stage in view of the audience but obscured by lighting in such a way that only their silhouettes were visible with a screen above the band displaying Hewlett s visuals alongside each song 46 The residency was later repeated in April 2006 at New York City s Apollo Theater and the Manchester performances were later released on DVD as Demon Days Live at the Manchester Opera House 47 48 The virtual Gorillaz members performed at the 2005 MTV Europe Music Awards in November 2005 49 and again at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards in February 2006 appearing to perform on stage via Musion Eyeliner technology 50 Albarn later expressed disappointment at the execution of the performance citing the low volume level required so as to not disturb the technology That was tough They started and it was so quiet cause they ve got this piece of film that you ve got to pull over the stage so any bass frequencies would just mess up the illusion completely 51 At the Grammys the band won Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for Feel Good Inc which was also nominated for Record of the Year 52 Albarn and Hewlett explored the idea of producing a full live holographic tour featuring the virtual Gorillaz appearing on stage with Munsion Eyeliner technology after the Grammys performance but the tour was ultimately never realised due to the tremendous expense and logistical issues that would have resulted 53 In October 2006 the band released the book Rise of the Ogre Presented as an autobiography of the band ostensibly written by the fictional members and expanding on the band s fictional backstory and universe the book was actually written by official Gorillaz script writer and live drummer Cass Browne and featured new artwork by Hewlett 54 Later the same month the band released another DVD Phase Two Slowboat to Hades compiling much of the band s visual content from the album cycle A second 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 55 56 In 2008 the documentary film Bananaz was released Directed by Ceri Levy the film documents the behind the scenes history of the band from 2000 to 2006 57 Plastic Beach and The Fall 2008 2012 Edit Albarn and Hewlett s next project together was the opera Monkey Journey to the West based on the classical Chinese novel Journey to the West which premiered at the 2007 Manchester International Festival While not officially a Gorillaz project Albarn mentioned in an interview that the project was Gorillaz really but we can t call it that for legal reasons 58 After completing work on Monkey in late 2007 Albarn and Hewlett began working on a new Gorillaz project entitled Carousel described by Albarn as being about the mystical aspects of Britain Hewlett described Carousel in a 2008 interview as even bigger and more difficult than Monkey It s sort of like a film but not with one narrative story There s many stories told around a bigger story set to music and done in live action animation all different styles Originally it was a film but now we think it s a film and it s a stage thing as well Damon s written around 70 songs for it and I ve got great plans for the visuals 59 The Carousel concept was eventually dropped with Albarn and Hewlett s work evolving into the third Gorillaz studio album Plastic Beach 60 Stylo source source Stylo featuring Mos Def and Bobby Womack showcases the electropop influences of the band s third album Plastic Beach Problems playing this file See media help Drawing upon environmentalist themes Plastic Beach was inspired by the idea of a secret floating island deep in the South Pacific made up of the detritus debris and washed up remnants of humanity inspired by marine pollution such as plastic that Albarn had found in a beach near one of his homes in Devon as well as the Great Pacific garbage patch 61 Unlike previous Gorillaz albums Albarn made the decision to produce Plastic Beach by himself with no co producer 62 The album was recorded throughout 2008 and 2009 in London New York City and Syria although production of the album was briefly interrupted so that Albarn could join Blur for a reunion tour in the summer of 2009 with Albarn explaining there s no way you can do that and that Blur and Gorillaz at the same time 60 Plastic Beach saw Gorillaz move into a more electronic pop sound with Albarn describing the album as the most pop record I ve ever made and saying that he took special care to make the album s lyrics and melodies clear and focused compared to previous albums 60 Plastic Beach also featured the largest cast of collaborators featured yet on a Gorillaz album fulfilling Albarn s goal of work ing with an incredibly eclectic surprising cast of people 60 including artists such as Snoop Dogg Mos Def Bobby Womack Little Dragon Lou Reed and Gruff Rhys among others and also included orchestral contributions from Sinfonia Viva and the Lebanese National Symphony Orchestra 62 Albarn explained the expanded roster of featured artists represented his and Hewlett s new vision of Gorillaz as a project explaining in a July 2008 interview that Gorillaz now to us is not like four animated characters any more it s more like an organisation of people doing new projects That s my ideal model 63 The 2010 live shows supporting Plastic Beach saw the touring band performing in full view of the audience for the first time Released on 3 March 2010 Plastic Beach debuted at 2 on both the UK Albums Chart and the US Billboard 200 chart the band s highest placing debut chart position The album was supported by the lead single Stylo featuring Mos Def and Bobby Womack released in January 2010 and the later singles On Melancholy Hill and Rhinestone Eyes To promote the album the band embarked on the Escape to Plastic Beach Tour the band s first world tour and also their first live performances in which the touring 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 touring band wearing naval attire was later described by Albarn as having been extremely costly to produce with the band barely breaking even on the shows saying I loved doing it but economically it was a fucking disaster 64 The tour 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 65 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 later released as the album The Fall first released digitally on Christmas Day 2010 and later given a physical release on 19 April 2011 66 67 The Fall is also co produced by Stephen Sedgwick the mixer engineer of the band 68 Albarn said the album served as a diary of the American leg of the tour explaining that the tracks were presented exactly as they were on the day they were written and recorded with no additional production or overdubs I literally made it on the road I didn t write it before I didn t prepare it I just did it day by day as a kind of diary of my experience 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 it out now they d know that I haven t done anything because I ve been on tour ever since 69 The band 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 70 71 On 23 February 2012 Gorillaz released DoYaThing a single to promote a Gorillaz branded collection of Converse shoes which were released shortly after The song was a part of Converse s Three Artists One Song project with the two additional collaborators being James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem and Andre 3000 of Outkast Two different edits of the song were released a four and a half minute radio edit released on Converse s website and the full 13 minute version of the song released on the Gorillaz website Hewlett returned to direct the single s music video featuring fictionalized animated versions of Murphy and Andre interacting with the Gorillaz virtual members 72 The song received positive reviews from critics with particular praise given to Andre 3000 s contributions to the track 73 74 DoYaThing source source DoYaThing Problems playing this file See media help In April 2012 Albarn told The Guardian that he and Hewlett had fallen out and that future Gorillaz projects were unlikely 75 Tension between the two had been building partly due to a belief held by Hewlett that his contributions to Gorillaz were being minimised Speaking to The Guardian in April 2017 Hewlett explained Damon had half the Clash on stage and Bobby Womack and Mos Def and De La Soul and fucking Hypnotic Brass Ensemble and Bashy and everyone else It was the greatest band ever And the screen on stage behind them seemed to get smaller every day I d say Have we got a new screen and the tour manager was like No it s the same screen Because it seemed to me like it was getting smaller 76 Albarn gave his side of the story in a separate interview saying I think 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 made a really good record and I was into it 75 On 25 April 2012 in an interview with Metro Albarn was more optimistic about Gorillaz future saying that once he had worked out his differences with Hewlett he was sure that they would make another record 77 In June 2013 Hewlett confirmed that he and Albarn planned to someday continue Gorillaz and record a follow up album to Plastic Beach saying We ll come back to it when the time is right 78 79 Hiatus and Humanz 2012 2018 Edit Following the release of DoYaThing and the publicization of Albarn and Hewlett s fall out in 2012 Gorillaz entered a multiyear hiatus During the hiatus Albarn released a solo album Everyday Robots scored stage productions and continued to record and tour with Blur while Hewlett held art exhibitions and attempted to create a film project which was ultimately never realized 80 While on tour in support of Everyday Robots in 2014 Albarn signaled openness to returning to Gorillaz telling The National Post that he wouldn t mind having another stab at a Gorillaz record 81 Two months later he reported that he had been writing quite a lot of songs on the road for Gorillaz 82 and at the end of 2014 confirmed in an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald that he was planning to record another Gorillaz album 83 Speaking about his relationship with Hewlett Albarn said that the pair s well publicised fall out had helped their relationship in the long term 84 Hewlett described the moment when he and Albarn agreed to continue Gorillaz at an afterparty after one of Albarn s solo shows in 2014 We d had a bit to drink and he said Do you want to do another one And I said Do you and he said Do you And I said Yeah sure I started work on it straight away learning to draw the characters again I played around by myself for eight months while he was performing with Blur in 2015 85 American hip hop and house producer the Twilite Tone co produced the band s fifth album Humanz Recording sessions for the band s fifth studio album Humanz began in late 2015 and continued through 2016 taking place in London New York City Paris and Jamaica 86 87 Albarn enlisted American hip hop and house producer Anthony Khan known by his stage name the Twilite Tone to co produce the album Albarn chose Khan from a list of possible producers compiled by Parlophone the band s record label after Albarn and Khan spoke via Skype Humanz was also co produced by Remi Kabaka Jr a friend of Albarn s who had worked with him in the non profit musical organization Africa Express and also has been the voice actor for the Gorillaz virtual band member Russel Hobbs since 2000 86 87 In conceptualizing the album Albarn and Khan envisioned Humanz as being the soundtrack for a party for the end of the world with Albarn specifically imagining a future in which Donald Trump won the 2016 U S presidential election as context for the album s narrative Trump becoming president was still considered an unlikely event at the time of recording explaining Let s use that as a kind of dark fantasy for this record let s imagine the night Donald Trump wins the election and how we re all going to feel that night 88 Khan stated that The idea of Donald Trump being president allowed us to create a narrative together I suggested that the album should be about joy pain and urgency That was to be our state of mind before we even touched a keyboard or an MPC Especially in American music dare I say black music there s a way of communicating joy that at the same time allows you to feel the struggle the person has been through And the urgency is there because something needs to be done 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 86 Humanz again featured a large 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 first track from the album released publicly was Hallelujah Money featuring Benjamin Clementine released on 20 January 2017 with an accompanying video featuring Clementine While not an official single Albarn explained that the band chose to release the track 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 we released it because we had imagined that happening and it did happen 89 Gorillaz with Albarn to the left on stage at the Brixton Academy in London June 2017 Humanz was released on 28 April 2017 the band s first new studio album in 7 years Featuring a modern sounding urban hip hop R amp B sensibility 86 the album debuted at 2 on both the UK Album charts and the US Billboard 200 Humanz received generally positive reviews from critics although received some criticism from fans and critics for what was perceived as a diminished presence from Albarn in contrast to the abundance of featured artists 90 91 The album was released in both standard and deluxe editions with the deluxe edition featuring an additional 6 bonus tracks and was promoted by the lead single 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 cost 800 000 to create 92 The band embarked on the Humanz Tour to support the album from the summer of 2017 to early 2018 Like the band s previous tour the Humanz Tour featured the touring band in full view of the audience with a large screen behind them displaying Hewlett created visuals and featured several of the different collaborative artists from the band s history 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 later repeated in Los Angeles in October 2018 On 8 June 2017 the band released the non album single Sleeping Powder with an accompanying music video and on 3 November 2017 a Super Deluxe version of Humanz featuring an additional 14 unreleased tracks from the album s sessions including alternative versions of previously released songs as well as the single Garage Palace featuring Little Simz The Now Now 2018 2019 Edit 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 future Gorillaz album Comparing the production of the album to The Fall which was also recorded while the band was on tour Albarn mentioned that It will be a more complete record than The Fall but hopefully have that spontaneity 93 Albarn signaled his desire to complete and release the album quickly adding that I really like the idea of making new music and playing it live almost simultaneously and If we re going to do more Gorillaz we don t want to wait seven years because y know we re getting on a bit now 93 The band later debuted a new song Idaho which was later included on the album at a concert in Seattle on 30 September 2017 with Albarn saying it had been written in the days prior 94 During a break in the Humanz Tour in February 2018 Albarn returned to London where he worked with producer James Ford known for his work with Arctic Monkeys and Florence and the Machine and Kabaka Jr to finish the newly written material resulting in the band s sixth studio album The Now Now released on 29 June 2018 Featuring simple mostly upbeat songs and 1980s new wave influences 95 the album was noted for its distinctly small list of featured artists compared to previous Gorillaz work with only two tracks featuring any outside artists the album 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 production which in turn was a result of Albarn wanting to finish the album before the band s touring schedule resumed We ve been very lucky to be offered all the festivals this year on the back of the last record Humanz but I didn t want to do that unless I had something new to work with so the only option was to make another record really quickly and not have lots of guests on it because that takes a long time to organize just do it all myself really 96 Albarn also explained that with The Now Now he sought to make a Gorillaz album where I m just singing for once and that the album is pretty much just me singing very sort of in the world of 2 D 97 Gorillaz performing at Barclays Center New York City on The Now Now Tour in October 2018 In the fictional Gorillaz storyline the band introduced Ace from Cartoon Network s animated series The Powerpuff Girls as a temporary bassist of the band during The Now Now album cycle filling in for the imprisoned Murdoc Niccals 98 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 cool and we kind of know the creator of it Craig McCracken It was a very organic thing 99 The band s remaining 2018 live dates were billed as The Now Now Tour to support the album and included a performance in Tokyo on 22 June 2018 billed as The Now Now World Premiere in which the band played the full album live for the first and only time a performance which was later broadcast by Boiler Room 100 On 16 December 2019 the documentary Gorillaz Reject False Icons was screened worldwide on a one day theatrical release Filmed and directed by Hewlett s son Denholm the documentary showcases a behind the scenes look at the production of Humanz and The Now Now as well as the album s associated tours 101 102 One week after the film s theatrical release a Director s Cut version of the film featuring additional footage was released on the official Gorillaz YouTube channel in three parts In the credits for Reject False Icons Kabaka Jr was listed as an official member of the band labeled as A amp R Producer alongside Albarn and Hewlett for the first time 103 104 105 Song Machine project and Meanwhile EP 2020 2021 Edit Hewlett left and Albarn right pictured with the animated band members in a 2020 publicity photo for Song Machine On 29 January 2020 the band announced its new project Song Machine Eschewing the typical album format of releasing music Song Machine is instead a web series that sees the band releasing one new song a month as episodes to the series with 11 episodes releasing to comprise the first season 106 107 Elaborating on the idea behind Song Machine in a radio interview shortly after the announcement of the project Albarn explained that We no longer kind of see ourselves as constrained to making albums We can now make episodes and seasons 108 Each episode features previously unannounced guest musicians on new Gorillaz material with the first being Momentary Bliss which was released on 31 January and features both British rapper Slowthai and the Kent based punk rock duo Slaves 109 Upon the premiere of Momentary Bliss Albarn revealed that the group had been in the studio with Schoolboy Q and Sampa the Great among others although he did say that these songs were likely to be saved for future episodes of Song Machine 110 The group also teased a possible collaboration with Australian band Tame Impala on Instagram 111 On 27 February the band released the second episode of Song Machine entitled Desole The song features Malian singer Fatoumata Diawara 112 The third episode Aries released on 9 April and featured Peter Hook and Georgia 113 The fourth 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 30 April 114 On 26 May Gorillaz announced the release of a new book titled Gorillaz Almanac The book comes in three editions standard deluxe and super deluxe all of which were set to release on 23 October but has since been delayed to 22 December needs update with a physical release of season one of Song Machine included with each copy 115 On 9 June the band released Friday 13th the fourth episode of Song Machine The track features French British rapper Octavian 116 On 20 July the band released Pac Man the fifth episode of Song Machine in honour of Pac Man s 40th anniversary 117 The track features American rapper Schoolboy Q 118 On 9 September the band released Strange Timez the sixth episode of Song Machine The track features Robert Smith from the Cure Gorillaz also announced the title and tracklist for Song Machine Season One Strange Timez released on 23 October 2020 featuring further guest appearances from Elton John 6lack JPEGMafia Kano Roxani Arias Moonchild Sanelly and Chai among others 119 On 1 October the band released The Pink Phantom the seventh episode of Song Machine The track features Elton John and American R amp B recording artist 6lack 120 Before the release of Song Machine Season One Strange Timez Gorillaz started a radio show on Apple Music called Song Machine 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 Machine Season One Strange Timez Albarn confirmed that the band already has a song for Season Two of Song Machine prepared for release and also mentioned that the second part of the project will be released earlier than expected 121 On 5 November the band released The Valley of the Pagans the eighth episode of Song Machine The track features American singer Beck The music video is somewhat notorious for being the first major studio production filmed in Grand Theft Auto V The video ends with a reference to previous album Plastic Beach 122 For unknown reasons the music video on the official Gorillaz YouTube channel was set to private just a few days after its initial premiere On 9 March 2021 Gorillaz uploaded an alternative version of the music video to their official YouTube channel which does not feature any gameplay from Grand Theft Auto V 123 On 24 December the band released The Lost Chord the ninth and final episode of the first season of Song Machine The track features British musician Leee John On 26 March 2021 the band celebrated its debut album s 20th anniversary with oncoming reissues of their catalog and teases of non fungible tokens 124 due to its impact on climate change the latter was met with criticism by various sources and fans some noting that the act contradicts the environmental themes of Plastic Beach No non fungible tokens have since released 125 The band also announced a boxset the G Collection containing six of their studio albums excluding The Fall for Record Store Day 126 On 10 August 2021 Gorillaz debuted three new songs Meanwhile featuring British rapper Jelani Blackman Jimmy Jimmy featuring British rapper AJ Tracey and Deja Vu featuring Jamaican British singer Alicai Harley during a free concert at The O2 Arena in London England exclusively for National Health Service employees and their families They then performed them again at the subsequent concert open to the public the next day both of which served as the first live audience concerts of the Song Machine Tour 127 These three songs were announced to be tracks from a new EP entitled Meanwhile with the cover originally published on TikTok 128 World Tour and Cracker Island 2022 present Edit On 17 September 2021 Albarn revealed that he had recorded a new Gorillaz song with Bad Bunny while in Jamaica and at the time said it would be the first single for a new album influenced by Latin America releasing in 2022 129 The concept for the album would later change with the song being announced at a later date On 31 August 2022 the name of this song was revealed to be Tormenta 130 In November 2021 Albarn announced that an animated film based on the band was in the works at Netflix but by February 2023 it had been cancelled 131 Throughout 2022 Gorillaz went on a world tour in South America Europe Australia and North America where they debuted new material 132 133 In June 2022 the band began teasing the release of new material with promotional displays and websites surfacing encouraging fans to sign up to be a part of The Last Cult The band released a new single regularly performed on tour called Cracker Island featuring Thundercat and produced with Greg Kurstin on 22 June 134 with the music video being released on 28 July 135 Their scheduled performance at the first Splendour in the Grass festival in Queensland Australia on 22 July was cancelled owing to torrential rain 136 In July 2022 they played at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre as part of Illuminate Adelaide supported by Moonchild Sanelly 137 In August 2022 the band performed the new song New Gold featuring Tame Impala and Bootie Brown at All Points East in London 138 and released it as their second single for their eighth studio album announced on the same day to be titled Cracker Island released on 24 February 2023 139 The album produced with Kurstin also features appearances from Stevie Nicks Bad Bunny Beck and Adeleye Omotayo 140 On 4 November the band released the third single from Cracker Island Baby Queen previously released on the FIFA 23 soundtrack 141 142 On 8 December the band released the album s fourth single Skinny Ape alongside the announcement of two virtual shows in Times Square and Piccadilly Circus on 17 and 18 December respectively 143 On 27 January 2023 the album s fifth single Silent Running featuring Adeleye Omotayo was released with a music video following on 8 February 144 145 The album received mostly positive reviews with Stephen Thomas Erlewine describing it as less an exploration of new sonic territory so much as it is a reaffirmation of Albarn s strengths with a clean efficient energy 146 147 On February 27 2023 a deluxe version of Cracker Island was released with five bonus tracks Previous collaborators Del the Funky Homosapien and De La Soul appeared on the deluxe version as well as Brazilian artist MC Bin Laden 148 Style and legacy EditThis section may contain excessive or inappropriate references to self published sources Please help improve it by removing references to unreliable sources where they are used inappropriately May 2020 Learn how and when to remove this template message Writers and critics have variously described Gorillaz as art pop 149 alternative rock 150 hip hop 151 electronic 152 trip hop 153 pop 154 dark pop 155 alternative hip hop 156 rap rock 157 indie rock 158 bedroom pop 159 dance rock 160 new wave 161 funk 161 worldbeat 1 and experimental rock 162 The band s aesthetic and general approach has been described as postmodern 1 According to AllMusic Gorillaz blend Britpop and hip hop 163 while The Guardian described the band as a sort of dub hip hop lo fi indie world music hybrid 164 According to PopMatters the band s early work foreshadowed the melding of hip hop rock and electronic elements in pop music that grew in significance in the next decade 165 Influencing to us is the greatest achievement of Gorillaz It s that we know that a very large percentage of our audience are kids who go on gorillaz com who go 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 nothing about So they re learning about Vlad The Impaler or Ronald Searle or The Specials so it s like an education They really get into it And they discover it the music we grew up on Jamie Hewlett 166 Gorillaz main musical influences include Fishmans Massive Attack the Specials Big Audio Dynamite Public Image Ltd Tom Tom Club Fun Boy Three Unkle A Tribe Called Quest and fellow collaborators De La Soul 167 168 169 170 171 as well as The Human League The Kinks XTC Simple Minds Sonic Youth Pavement Ween Portishead Beck Wire Fela Kuti Sly and the Family Stone Earth Wind and Fire Augustus Pablo Zapp and DJ Kool Herc 172 173 174 Gorillaz primary visual influences include Hanna Barbera Looney Tunes 175 Mad magazine 176 177 The Simpsons 178 2000 AD 179 and Metal hurlant Heavy Metal 180 Furthermore Hewlett has also cited European artists such as Carl Giles Ronald Searle 181 182 Moebius Tanino Liberatore 183 Mike McMahon 184 and Brendan McCarthy 185 The idea for Gorillaz was inspired by the many cartoon bands that came before them in the 1960s such as the Banana Splits the Archies Josie and the Pussycats and Alvin and the Chipmunks and real bands with fictional stage personas like ABC circa How to Be a Zillionaire and Silicon Teens 186 187 Musical artists and bands who have been influenced by Gorillaz s work include Major Lazer 188 Dethklok 189 190 Rat Boy 191 Chromeo 192 Flume 193 Foster the People 194 The 1975 195 5 Seconds of Summer 196 Awolnation 197 Paramore 198 Grimes 199 Kesha 200 A G Cook 201 Finneas 202 Oliver Tree 203 Flatbush Zombies 204 Vic Mensa 205 IDK 206 Trippie Redd 207 The Internet 208 ASAP Rocky 209 Lupe Fiasco 210 Brockhampton 211 Odd Future 212 and Billie Eilish who was joined by Albarn to sing her song Getting Older and Gorillaz song Feel Good Inc with Posdnuos of De La Soul 213 Gorillaz have also influenced animated series such as The Amazing World of Gumball 214 Glitch Techs 215 Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 216 Motorcity Tron Uprising 217 Teen Titans 218 and Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts 219 as well as video games like Borderlands 220 Sunset Overdrive 221 No Straight Roads 222 Battlefield 223 and League of Legends 224 Gorillaz have collaborated with a number of brands including Motorola 225 O2 226 Internet Explorer 9 227 Converse 228 and Jaguar Cars 229 They have also been featured in fashion magazines such as Maxim Nylon and Numero 230 The band s use of the internet and digital media for promotion as early as 2000 has been touched on in retrospective reviews for being ahead of its time 231 Dazed magazine has summarised Gorillaz s impact as completely reinvent ing the notion of what a band could be 232 Band members EditVirtual members Murdoc Niccals bass drum machine 1998 present a 2 D vocals keyboards melodica rhythm guitar piano synthesizers 1998 present Noodle lead guitar keyboards vocals 1998 2006 2012 present Russel Hobbs drums percussion drum machine 1998 2006 2012 present Former virtual members Paula Cracker lead guitar 1998 Cyborg Noodle lead guitar vocals 2008 10 Ace bass 2018 Virtual members timeline Edit Touring members Edit 2001 2002 Gorillaz Live Damon Albarn lead vocals keyboards rhythm guitar piano melodica Mike Smith keyboards Cass Browne drums percussion drum machine Darren Galea turntables Simon Katz lead guitar Junior Dan bass 2001 Roberto Occhipinti bass 2002 2005 2006 Demon Days Live Damon Albarn lead vocals piano melodica Mike Smith keyboards Cass Browne drums Darren Galea turntables Simon Tong guitar Karl Vanden Bossche percussion Simon Jones rhythm guitar Morgan Nicholls bass2010 Escape to Plastic Beach Tour Damon Albarn lead vocals keyboards piano melodica acoustic guitar Mike Smith keyboards Cass Browne drums drum machine Simon Tong lead guitar replaced Jeff Wootton on some dates Mick Jones rhythm guitar backing vocals Paul Simonon bass guitar backing vocals Jesse Hackett keyboards Jeff Wootton lead guitar Gabriel Wallace drums percussion2017 2018 Humanz Tour and The Now Now Tour Damon Albarn lead vocals piano keyboards rhythm guitar Mike Smith keyboards backing vocals Karl Vanden Bossche electronic drums percussion Jesse Hackett keyboards Jeff Wootton lead guitar Gabriel Wallace drums percussion Seye Adelekan bass guitar acoustic guitar backing vocals2020 22 Song Machine Tour and World Tour 2022 Damon Albarn lead vocals piano keyboards rhythm guitar Mike Smith keyboards backing vocals Karl Vanden Bossche drums percussion Jesse Hackett keyboards Jeff Wootton lead guitar Seye Adelekan bass guitar acoustic guitar backing vocals Remi Kabaka Jr percussion Femi Koleoso drumsTouring members timeline EditDiscography EditMain article Gorillaz discography Studio albums Gorillaz 2001 Demon Days 2005 Plastic Beach 2010 The Fall 2010 Humanz 2017 The Now Now 2018 Song Machine Season One Strange Timez 2020 Cracker Island 2023 Tours EditGorillaz Live 2001 2002 Demon Days Live 2005 2006 Escape to Plastic Beach Tour 2010 Humanz Tour 2017 2018 The Now Now Tour 2018 Song Machine Tour 2020 2021 Gorillaz World Tour 2022 2022 Awards and nominations EditMain article List of awards and nominations received by GorillazExplanatory notes Edit Murdoc was briefly in hiatus from the band in 2018 during the course of The Now Now due to being in jail leading to Ace becoming his temporary replacement 233 References Edit a b c Wehner Cyclone April 2017 Gorillaz Humanz Music Feeds Retrieved 19 November 2017 a b Award bpi Gorillaz Demon Days British Phonographic Industry 24 February 2006 Retrieved 11 December 2020 Gold amp Platinum Gorillaz Demon Days Recording Industry Association of America Retrieved 11 December 2020 EMI Music earns 54 Grammy nominations EMI 8 December 2005 Archived from the original on 8 May 2009 Retrieved 1 June 2007 EMI Music Publishing Wins Big at the Grammys EMI 14 February 2006 Archived from the original on 29 September 2010 Retrieved 17 January 2010 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