The guest list of Humanz was partly directed by the fandom of Albarn’s own 17-year-old daughter, Missy, who loves artists like Vince Staples and Danny Brown. “We went to some party,” says Hewlett, “and in a drunken conversation, he said, ‘Do you want to do more Gorillaz?’ And I said ‘Yeah, do you?’ And he said ‘Yeah.’ And I said ‘Right, then.’ That was the end of the conversation.” Hewlett says that the group’s return with their first LP in seven years - since they released Plastic Beach and The Fall in quick succession in 2010 - was not the product of grand design, so much as bar talk between the Gorillaz godfathers back in 2014, after Albarn had just played a show in support of his solo album, Everyday Robots. “I don’t want to give the most famous man on earth any more fame, particularly.
“There’s no references to on the record - in fact, any time when anyone made any reference, I edited it out,” he says. The election was a clear catalyst for those overtones, although Albarn made sure that the lyrics to Humanz don’t give the president any specific credit. Humanz is not a conventional protest album against the American president as much as a party record for the apocalypse that his reign might ultimately lead to “The sky’s falling, baby, drop that ass before it crash,” Vince Staples proclaims on “Ascension,” which has peaked at No. “Trump’s ascension was one of the sources of energy that we meditated on, when it was like, ‘Ahh, that’s ridiculous, that could never happen,’” he explains. Albarn warned the world against Donald Trump rising to the Oval Office as far back as the fall of 2015, when he would add a “Don’t fall for Donald Trump / He’s such a chump” sing-along to Blur’s live performances of “Tender.” And indeed, the singer-songwriter says Humanz was inspired in large part by imagining, “What would happen if the world was turned, in some unthinkable way, on its head?” - a reality borne out by the 2016 presidential election. 27 on Parlaphone/Warner Bros.) marks a return to the end-time themes that were front-and-center on 2005’s Demon Days, which Hewlett says was inspired by the Sept.
radio success (“Song 2” for Blur in 1997 “Feel Good Inc.” for Gorillaz in 2005).įor Albarn, who has kept both groups running concurrently since Blur reunited in 2009, Gorillaz’s animated presentation has allowed the group to come and go without aging (literally) or being tethered to one era. The band has risen to the same level of critical and commercial esteem as Blur both acts have headlined Coachella and had offbeat singles stumble into U.S.
GORILLAZ DEMON DAYS ALBUM VIDEO ACCOMPANIMENT SERIES
Joseph Okpako/WireImageįor nearly two decades, the cartoon band has transcended its side-project roots, under the guidance of Albarn and musician/visual artist Jamie Hewlett, with a series of acclaimed LPs that incorporate hip-hop, holograms and high-concept rollouts. Gorillaz perform their new album "Humanz" live on Main London.
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