The new Gorillaz album promised by Damon Albarn to a crowd in Santiago earlier this year has been confirmed.
The Now Now will quickly follow-up last year’s Humanz album on June 29th, its lead track Humility has been premiered on Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 show. Speaking to the host, Albarn outlined his simple vision for the album, and discussed the latest set of Gorillaz collaborators.
“I’ve just wanted to make another record so that when we play the gigs this summer there is something nice to play everyone,” he revealed. “I thought I should make a record where I’m just singing for once. I mean, sorry, 2-D singing for once.”
“It’s an album, I sing on it. It’s pretty much just me singing, very sort of in the world of 2-D but kind of come out and he’s singing very expressively. I feel really good about it. I feel really really good about it. It’s a summer record.”
“I wrote most of it on tour back in America. Snoop [Dogg] is on it because we were in LA and Jamie Principle because he was on the tour. And then just so randomly sort of George Benson and that’s it really.”