Features / / 04 · 05 · 2021
Gorillaz might well be indestructible. A titanic pop force, their ability to renew and regenerate has allowed them to outstrip their peers. The pandemic, though, is an entirely different challenge.
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It could have all been so different. When Gorillaz kicked off 2020 they wanted to embrace a new means of creating, a different method of collaboration. Song Machine moved the multi-media outfit away from the standard write an album, release an album, tour an album formula, allowing them to deconstruct different studio narratives on a song by song basis.
Launching with the exquisite âMomentary Blissâ â a raucous collaboration with incendiary Northampton rap gobshite slowthai and Kentish punk duo Slaves â it was designed as a means to shake up and overhaul Gorillazâ methodologies. Speaking to Clash, 2D sums up their motivations: âWell, itâs like, if you do the same thing for ages