Gorillaz return: ‘We’re living in a world of cults’
The new album from Gorillaz is all about the cartoon foursome starting their own ridiculous cult. Just don’t ask Keith Richards to join.
The animated band, the brainchild of British musician Damon Albarn and cartoonist Jamie Hewlett, is back with an eighth album, “Cracker Island”.
It sees the characters of Murdoc, Noodle, Russel and 2D heading for Los Angeles and starting their own ill-fated cult.
The idea came from conversations between Albarn and Hewlett about our increasingly tribal world, as well as the need to flee London “because of Brexit and Boris Johnson and the fact the country is on its knees”.
“All of us are living in a world where we’re being separated from one another into cults,” Hewlett told AFP.