Delivered five years after the delicate whimsical melancholy of 2005's Demon Days, Plastic Beach is an explicit sequel to its predecessor, its story line roughly picking up in the dystopian future where the last album left off, its music offering a grand, big-budget expansion of Demon Days, spinning off its cameo-crammed blueprint. Collaborations with Snoop Dogg, Gruff Rhys, De La Soul, Little Dragon and more make this a truly special album.Gorillaz began as a lark but turned serious once it became Damon Albarn's primary creative outlet following the slow dissolve of Blur. Albarn’s ability to diversify musically shows no signs of slowing down on ‘Plastic Beach’, the follow-up to 2005’s ‘Demon Days’. While the image is powerful, it is the music that has ultimately made this project such a multi-million selling success. The brainchild of iconic singer Damon Albarn and Tank Girl co-creator Jamie Hewlett, Gorillaz are made up of mysterious and imaginative cartoon characters. The CD was released back in March, and EMI had promised a lavish box set containing a vinyl format “later in the year”, but we’ve since learned that a standard double vinyl edition is now on the cards for late August/early September.

We’ve lost count of the times we’ve been asked for this on vinyl. This Plastic Beach is the furthest point from any landmass on Earth the most deserted spot on the planet. The band have taken up residence, recording on a secret floating island deep in the South Pacific, a Plastic Beach HQ, made up of the detritus, debris and washed up remnants of humanity. Five years on from the release of Demon Days, Murdoc Niccals and co. This is the long-awaited vinyl format of the latest Gorillaz album “Plastic Beach”.

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