Latest Release
- 27 FEB 2023
- 15 Songs
- Plastic Beach · 2010
- Demon Days · 2005
- Humanz (Deluxe) · 2017
- Cracker Island · 2022
- Greek Tragedy - UK Indie · 2001
- Plastic Beach · 2010
- Cracker Island · 2022
- Demon Days · 2005
- Cracker Island · 2022
- New Gold (feat. Tame Impala and Bootie Brown) [Dom Dolla Remix] - Single · 2022
Essential Albums
- If Gorillaz began life as a playful comment on artificiality in music (and a way for Damon Albarn to escape the shadow of Britpop) then Demon Days is their coming of age. Laden with A-grade guests—ranging from Roots Manuva to Dennis Hopper—and expansive in its scope, this second record delivers everything from off-kilter hip hop (“Dirty Harry” and De La Soul feature “Feel Good Inc.”) to neo-rave bangers (Shaun Ryder assist “Dare”) without putting a foot wrong.
Albums
- 2018
- 2017
- 2010
- 2010
- 2005
Artist Playlists
- The simian misfits masterfully juggle an array of sounds.
- 2021
Live Albums
- 2010
Compilations
- 2001
Radio Shows
- The mastermind behind Gorillaz joins to talk Cracker Island.
- Gorillaz co-founder Damon Albarn on 'Cracker Island.'
- Damon Albarn talks making and collaborating on Cracker Island.
- Damon Albarn talks through the band’s LP Cracker Island.
- Songs from Joan Jett and Against Me!, plus a Gorillaz encore.
- Strombo celebrates Gorillaz’s self-titled album as it turns 20.
- A deep dive into the songbooks of two ever evolving artists.
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About Gorillaz
One day in the late '90s, comic-book artist Jamie Hewlett and Blur singer Damon Albarn were sitting around in their West London flat watching TV—a brand-new Panasonic, eight channels on screen at once. Their eyes were glazed, their minds empty. The images just kept coming. This was the dawn of reality TV—shows that turned so-called real life into pre-packaged stories and people into cartoons. The question hit them: If culture was already fake, why keep pretending it was real? At first glance, the idea of an animated “virtual band”—the sprightly 2-D, rogue Murdoc Niccals, gangsta Russel Hobbs and sweet outsider Noodle—seemed a little gimmicky, an art-school shot at mainstream pop. But in retrospect, Gorillaz’s work—the electro-indie pop of “Feel Good Inc.” and “Dare”, the leftfield hip-hop of “Clint Eastwood” and “Dirty Harry”, the bits of American gospel, African folk and dub—reflected a rootless, fragmented world that has only gotten more familiar with time. That they had no fixed line-up and an ever-rotating series of vocalists and collaborators (from Elton John to De La Soul, Clash bassist Paul Simonon to Afro-Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer) not only undercut old ideas of what it meant to be a “band”, it projected a vision that felt communal, even a little utopian, unbound by borders cultural, stylistic or otherwise. Even when they projected dystopia, they made the future sound bright (“On Melancholy Hill”). Bands are bands. In Gorillaz, we got a living, breathing playlist.
- ORIGIN
- London, England
- FORMED
- 1998
- GENRE
- Alternative