Gorillaz have confirmed that their subsequent album will likely be launched in 2025.
Chatting with the French publication Les Inrockuptibles earlier this week, Damon Albarn revealed that he’s just lately been “ending a brand new Gorillaz album,” which he alluded would arrive later this 12 months. Referencing the mission and his new opera — The Magic Flute II: La Malédiction, which opened this week in Paris — he mentioned, “One opera and one new Gorillaz album looks as if sufficient for 2025! Except somebody accuses me of taking my foot off the gasoline!”
The information was additional confirmed by Gorillaz illustrator Jamie Hewlett, who supposedly replied to the fan web page, everythingorillaz, saying “Sure the brand new album is popping out this 12 months.”
Extra particulars are largely unknown right now, however phrase of a brand new Gorillaz album has been round since 2023, when Albarn wrapped his reunion with Blur and indicated he was able to give attention to the beloved animated mission once more. Chatting with Les Inrockuptibles that December, he mentioned he was going “to India with Jamie [Hewlett] to start out engaged on a brand new Gorillaz album.”
Now, the album is almost completed, and will likely be within the public’s fingers quickly. It’ll mark the primary full-length launch from Gorillaz since Cracker Island arrived in February 2023.
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Only a few months after Cracker Island arrived, Albarn joined with Blur once more to launch their ninth album, The Ballad of Darren, which was adopted by a tour that concluded with the band’s performances at Coachella 2024. Onstage, Albarn urged that it might be their “final gig.”
Extra just lately, Albarn participated alongside 1,000 different artists within the silent album, Is This What We Need?, launched to protest the UK authorities’s proposed adjustments to copyright regulation to permit AI corporations to coach their fashions utilizing copyrighted work with no license.