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What should fans expect from a new Gorillaz album in 2018?
Everest of studio coordination such a major undertaking involves.
Credit: Jamie Hewlett
But fair warning: Snoop aside, the album is just Albarn’s voice.
“So if youdon’tlike my voice, it’s probably not worth investigating this record.
“Not that it’s so divisive, but it’s an acquired taste, really.”
Gorillaz co-creators Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett.Dhillon Shukla
“My voice has gotten a lot better,” he continues.
“A lot richer and deeper, I think.
[But] I wouldn’t say I like it.
I’m permanently dissatisfied, period, with what I do.
I have little glimpses when I’m making something, like, ‘Ahhhh, I love this!
This is great!’
I don’t know.”
One track, “Idaho,” was in fact inspired by a specific trip out West.
“We’d just playedRed Rocks, so it was on the way from there to Seattle.
I couldn’t get enough of it, actually.”
Those tracks called “Kansas” and “Hollywood” though?
Don’t read too much into them.
“Sometimes my original GarageBand [software] titles just stay.
I know where the words came from, but not why.”
Well, technically it’s three.
I struggle with some of it, I really do, but I love that about it.
If you’ve got the air miles, join him there.
