The band have taken up residence, recording on a secret floating island deep in the South Pacific, a Plastic Beach HQ, made up of the detritus, debris and washed up remnants of humanity. It features guest appearances by several artists, including Snoop Dogg, Gruff Rhys, De La Soul, Bobby Womack, Yasiin Bey, Lou Reed, Mick Jones and the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble.Five years on from the release of Demon Days, Murdoc Niccals and co. Conceived from an unfinished Gorillaz project called Carousel, the album was recorded from June 2008 to November 2009 and produced primarily by Damon Albarn. Plastic Beach is the third studio album by the British virtual band, released 3 March 2010 on Parlophone and Virgin Records. Plastic Beach is considered to be Phase 3 of the cartoon band’s story, which you can read about in full here. My interpretation of the island is that it’s the collection of all the plastic and stuff in the ocean, and it’s all clean now ‘cause it’s all collected into an island. It’s everything that goes on on the island, Plastic Beach.

It is natural for the Gorillaz to make political statements in their music, or as they put it, “social realism parallel with love.” Gorillaz co-creator Damon Albarn’s perception of the album title, as stated in the Plastic Beach half-hour documentary, began somewhere very plain and simple:ĭoesn’t have to be any more narrative than that. The album’s worldly outlook, though primarily concerned with the environment, extends to those responsible for the problem – the plastic-producing human race. Plastic Beach is about the accumulation of plastic in an extremely broad sense it’s about the impact that anything inherently disposable and artificial has on the world.

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