Pop quiz: name the four members of Gorillaz. Nearly twenty years after their creation by Britpop war vet Damon Albarn and indie comic book artist Jamie Hewlett, the cartoon angle of the pop art ...
There are few things more complex and engaging than a virtual band in the era of technology and the internet. British virtual band Gorillaz, created by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, has been around ...
Look at the cover of the new Gorillaz album for longer than a passing glance and you’ll begin to notice an uncanny resemblance between the 3D renditions of the virtual band’s animated members and some ...
When we heard rumblings of a new Gorillaz album last year we thought we knew what to expect. Little did we know we weren’t just getting a new album—we got an entirely new Gorillaz. Humanz arrived last ...
One of the many admirable things about Damon Albarn is that he’s always evolving, and rarely content to repeat himself. Even his failed experiments, like the last Gorillaz album, 2010’s The Fall, ...
For all its charms, Britpop was the Brexit of Nineties rock: a cultural wagon-circle telegraphing a monocultural vision of fin de siècle England. To his credit, Damon Albarn has shaped his post-Blur ...
When Damon Albarn, the creative madman behind the genre-bending collective Gorillaz, emerged onto the Red Rocks stage Tuesday night, my first thought was that he looked like he’d either been plucked ...
Gorillaz’s Humanz album has finally dropped, after seven years without music from the animated band. The Damon Albarn project did it right. With collaborations from all across the musical spectrum, ...
It's no secret that the music industry is struggling, especially as album sales, both physical and digital, slip in the wake of streaming services like Spotify. Gorillaz, however, has always been more ...
The Gorillaz have always been a grab-bag project. It's where Damon Albarn, distinguished Order of the British Empire member and Britpop mastermind behind Blur, keeps his synth music — be it prog ...
Much of 2017 has been spent hyping up the Gorillaz new album, Humanz, and fans are finally getting the album on Friday. We’ve heard many of the songs, including “Hallelujah Money” and those with ...