Gorillaz’s New Album “The Fall” is Set to Drop Soon

The British alternative group Gorillaz are setting up to physically release their new album “The Fall”. 

The Grammy Award winning animated band previously released “The Fall” last Christmas as a free download on their website and was made exclusively available to fans in the band’s Sub-Division fan club.  “The Fall” came out the very same year that the Gorillaz had released their long anticipated third studio album “Plastic Beach”.

The story behind the creation of “The Fall” is both amazing and completely unusual.  The entire album was recorded on the group’s founder and front man Damon Albarn’s iPad as the band was embarking on the American leg of their Escape To Plastic Beach World Tour last October and was later mixed in England by Stephen Sedgwick.  A video for “Phoner to Arizona”, the very first single off of “The Fall” was posted on YouTube on December 22^nd.  Here’s the official music video for “Phoner To Arizona”; enjoy!

 

The fifteen track album is set for release this coming April 18^th and does not feature as many guest spots as the band’s previous albums.  There were additional guitars recorded by Mick Jones (of The Clash) on the “Hillbilly Man” track and additional bass was featured on “Aspen Forest” by Paul Simonon (also of The Clash).  Bobby Womack returns from “Plastic Beach” and co-wrote and sings on the track “Bobby In Phoenix”.

Gorillaz is composed of four real members and four fictional members.  The real Gorillaz are front man/founder/keyboardist/guitarist/bass guitarist/ & harmonic player Damon Albarn, co-founder/illustrator/visual FX creator Jamie Hewitt, keyboard player Mike Smith, and drummer/percussionist Cass Browne.  While these are the people who actually produce the band’s music, they are not as well known as their animated counterparts. 

Gorillaz’s fictional members are (from clockwise above) front man 2D, bass guitarist Murdoc Niccals, guitarist Noodle, and Russel Hobbs, their drummer and DJ.  They appear in most of the band’s videos.  Here’s a new video featuring most of them (that’s “Cyborg Noodle” in the back ground; not the real Noodle & Russel is also M.I.A. in this vid. L).  Despite that, it's still really funny, so check it out!