Gorillaz: a new album is coming

The Gorillaz celebrate the 25th anniversary with “House of Kong”an exhibition at the Copper Box Arena in London which offers fans a look behind the scenes of their headquarters, and with four special concerts between August and early September. In an interview with Channel 4 News, Damon Albarn revealed that the first three evenings will see the full execution of the band’s first three albums, while the fourth will remain “a surprise”. When asked if there could be new music, Albarn replied: “It could. Indeed, yes”, while Jamie Hewlett, the other founder of the formation, has mimick the gesture of the tagliagolahalfway between joke and secret revealed. It is not the first time that Albarn hints at a new album: he had already declared that he was working on a new Gorillaz album, to be released in 2025, and already in March, and Hewlett on Instagram confirmed: “Yes, the new album comes out this year”. Albarn also anticipated that the disc will be in four languages.

The latest album published by the band is “Cracker Island” (2023), a job that has consolidated his ability to mix genres and high -profile collaborations, and which has received a good critical and public success. The tour following the release of the disc saw the Gorillaz perform all over the world, bringing their unique mixture on stage Entertainment, music and visual show. In addition to music, Albarn expressed his position on the conflict in the Middle East in an interview, By defining the situation in Gaza a “genocide” and underlining that “we cannot deny their existence to the Palestinians”. The celebratory performances will see Albarn accompanied by complete live training and by Hewlett Visualwith an atmosphere that will resume the spirit of the band’s first concerts, in a context with limited capacity. The celebratory live They will be held from 29 August to 3 September at the Copper Box Arena in London: as written during the first three evenings, the band will perform its first three projects in full – “Gorillaz” (2001), “Demon Days” (2005) and “Plastic Beach” (2010) – While the last show remains “a mystery”.