It looks like Gorillaz aren’t too far off from completing their eagerly anticipated new album. According to a reddit user who recently got together with project co-founder Damon Albarn, the singer has “two weeks left of recording and the album’s finished”.
As we previously reported, 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 ’Tomorrow Comes Today′.
Albarn recently told BBC 6 Radio that the next Gorillaz album should be ready “fairly soon” and Hewlett has said that he and Albarn are eyeing a 2017 release date for the new album.
Whether we should still expect the album next year is anybody’s guess now that it will apparently be finished before the end of the month, but it’s also not clear if Albarn was referring merely to the recording of the album and not the mixing and mastering.
‘Phase Four’ of the Gorillaz project was initiated last week after the band took to Twitter to share pages from The Book of Noodle, which fills in the blanks on the character’s story arc since 2010’s Plastic Beach.
The animated online comic book takes place just days after “the attack on Plastic Beach”, with Noodle popping up in a Japanese fishing town where she ultimately unleashed a shape-shifting demon “of unimaginable evil”, subsequently seeking to destroy it.
A new instalment illuminating what happened to Noodle’s bandmate Russel has since been shared via the official Gorillaz Twitter page.
