After years of ‘will they or won’t they?’ rumours, Gorillaz finally confirmed earlier this year that they are getting to work on the eagerly anticipated follow-up to the project’s 2011 album, The Fall.

The brainchild of Blur frontman Damon Albarn and cult comic book legend Jamie Hewlett, the iconic project was a phenomenon when they first exploded onto the scene with singles like ‘Clint Eastwood’ and ’19-2000′.

Now it seems we’ll get to witness the continued evolution of everybody’s favourite digital band in 2016. As Consequence of Sound reports, Albarn recently told BBC 6 Radio that the next Gorillaz album should be ready “fairly soon”.

“Later in the year we’ll be starting to get the whole Gorillaz thing together,” he explained, adding that he’s “loving” the material the band have been working on so far and that the album “should be ready fairly soon”.

Details about the new Gorillaz LP are scant, but Hewlett has labelled the album “really… special” and reports have surfaced claiming Albarn and Hewlett have been working with the like sod Jean Michel-Jarre, Twilite Tone, Liam Bailey, and Vic Mensa on the album.

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