{"id":12642,"date":"2023-03-02T21:25:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T21:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12642"},"modified":"2023-03-21T21:28:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T21:28:15","slug":"cracker-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/03\/02\/cracker-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Cracker Island"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20230302-gorillaz-return-we-re-living-in-a-world-of-cults\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from France24<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gorillaz return: &#8216;We&#8217;re living in a world of cults&#8217;<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gorillaz - Cracker Island (Full Album) 2023\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uOMl_nRhQOw?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The new album from Gorillaz is all about the cartoon foursome starting their own ridiculous cult. Just don&#8217;t ask Keith Richards to join.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The animated band, the brainchild of British musician Damon Albarn and cartoonist Jamie Hewlett, is back with an eighth album, &#8220;Cracker Island&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It sees the characters of Murdoc, Noodle, Russel and 2D heading for Los Angeles and starting their own ill-fated cult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea came from conversations between Albarn and Hewlett about our increasingly tribal world, as well as the need to flee London &#8220;because of Brexit and Boris Johnson and the fact the country is on its knees&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;All of us are living in a world where we&#8217;re being separated from one another into cults,&#8221; Hewlett told AFP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20230302-gorillaz-return-we-re-living-in-a-world-of-cults\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at France 24<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from France24 Gorillaz return: &#8216;We&#8217;re living in a world of cults&#8217; The new album from Gorillaz is all about the cartoon foursome starting their own ridiculous cult. Just don&#8217;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, &#8220;Cracker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}