Gorillaz Are Back with a New Video, New Album and New Story to Prove that They Are the Most Scifi Musical Act around
Forget Gaga’s outfits or Kanye’s stage sets.
Gorillaz are back with a new video, new album and new story to prove that they are the most scifi musical act around - particularly now that one of them is a cyborg. The galvanizing video for Stylo made its debut online yesterday, complete with surprise guest-star and confusing plot - Why are 2D, Murdoc and Noodle ( or an android that looks like Noodle, at least ) being chased? Is that smoke cloud that turns into a person Death? Where’s Russel? - to officially provoke next week’s launch of new album Plastic Beach. like prior release Devil Days, Plastic Beach is more than an album ; it is a new story and established order for the make-believe characters which make up the general public face of the band, and it’s here that Gorillaz steps up to become a Lost-like mythology that rewards enquiry, online scavenger hunts for info and piecing everything together. Teaser videos for the album have shown 3 of the band’s 4 members to date in circumstances that only come truly together if you would read a tale about the band’s return in Q Mag at the beginning of the year, but entertain and lure even if you hadn’t ( glance at the Captive shout-out in 2D’s provoke ). For people that need to catch up with the backstory of Plastic Beach as more than only a collection of great music - You can hear all of it, pre-release, here - here’s what you want to grasp
