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The band performed in silhouette during the Demon Days Live performances (pictured here with De La Soul on stage). This caused Hewlett to change the setting of the storyline for Song Machine, starting with "Strange Timez" being set in space.

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As with the art in 2-D's journal for The Now Now, the artwork from 2-D's art exhibition is drawn by Damon Albarn himself. Musician Damon Albarn and comic artist Jamie Hewlett met in 1990 when guitarist Graham Coxon, a fan of Hewlett's work, asked him to interview Blur, which Albarn and Coxon had recently formed. On 8 June 2017 the band released the non-album single " Sleeping Powder" with an accompanying music video and on 3 November 2017 a "Super Deluxe" version of Humanz, featuring an additional 14 unreleased tracks from the album's sessions, including alternative versions of previously released songs as well as the single " Garage Palace" featuring Little Simz. In " Aries", the band are transported through the portal to the North African country of Morocco for a race. In Song Machine, Kong Studios contains various portals that can teleport Gorillaz to various locations across the world.Gorillaz have always collaborated with music but this is the first time we’ve done an art collaboration,” Hewlett said in a statement. Thomas Smith of NME also noted the album's stylistic diversity, stating that the record is a "varied affair that pulls from Albarn and the band's perchance [sic] for exploration: punk rock sits effortlessly next to glitzy piano ballads, while playful hip-hop and melancholic post-rave ambience soothe our pounding heads.

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It was one of those things, the music and the videos weren't working as well together, but I felt we'd made a really good record and I was into it. Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez is the seventh studio album by British virtual band Gorillaz, released on 23 October 2020 via Parlophone and Warner Records.Gorillaz also announced the title and tracklist for Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez, released on 23 October 2020, featuring further guest appearances from Elton John, 6lack, JPEGMafia, Kano, Roxani Arias, Moonchild Sanelly and Chai, among others.

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Originally description said " including the first ever strip to star 2D, Noodle, Murdoc Niccals and Russel Hobbs". Their second studio album, Demon Days (2005), went six times platinum in the UK [3] and double platinum in the US and spawned the successful lead single " Feel Good Inc. On 23 February 2012, Gorillaz released " DoYaThing", a single to promote a Gorillaz-branded collection of Converse shoes which were released shortly after.

Ultimately I would love to create an animation style as good as Chuck Jones’s style during the late 70’s. On 10 August 2021, Gorillaz debuted three new songs, "Meanwhile" (featuring British rapper Jelani Blackman), "Jimmy Jimmy" (featuring British rapper AJ Tracey), and "Déjà Vu" (featuring Jamaican-British singer Alicaì Harley), during a free concert at The O 2 Arena in London, England exclusively for National Health Service employees and their families. The sessions resulted in the band's first release, the EP Tomorrow Comes Today, released on 27 November 2000. Russel's fictional backstory of being possessed by the spirits of dead musicians is what originally inspired the usage of collaborators and guests on Gorillaz' albums.