There’s been talk of new Gorillaz music for a while now, sometimes coyly and other times definitively, but it still had to come after roughly five years of the project being totally inactive.
They patched up whatever issues they had some time ago, but Albarn’s also become an increasingly booked-up artist in the years since Plastic Beach.
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(Quickly on the heels of that, there was also The Fall - first released as a download in late 2010, then physically in April 2011 - though with its departure from the usual structure and approach of Gorillaz albums, it felt more like a coda to the Plastic Beach era than a new chapter.) Part of the reason for the long wait is a falling out between Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett, who provides the visual component of Gorillaz. It’s been just over seven years since Gorillaz’ last full-fledged album, 2010’s Plastic Beach. Now that it isn’t one of those past lives people still want to ask about, but instead revived and once more offering him this type of songwriting outlet, he comes across almost giddy about the whole thing, gleefully sharing anecdotes about working with specific artists or indulging granular questions about the process behind making these albums. Today, he doesn’t say anything nearly as reductive or dismissive of Gorillaz. “Are you asking me if I’ll make another album someday with synths and drum machines? Sure.” “What makes a Gorillaz song different than anything else I do is very simple: I just use synthesizers,” he said. Perhaps understandably, he was a little bristly and evasive if you asked him about the prospect of new Blur or Gorillaz at that time. The last time I spoke to him, in 2014, he was promoting his first true solo album under his own name, Everyday Robots. Soon after the official announcement of Humanz and some weeks from its release, I am with Albarn at his hotel on a torrentially rainy day in Manhattan. As he reached out to the predictably dizzying array of collaborators, that was the main question he asked them: a basic premise plucked from a looming disaster out on 2016’s horizon. Just over a year ago, Damon Albarn was beginning, in earnest, to make the new Gorillaz album, Humanz. “Imagine a night where everything that you believed in was turned on its head.
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