Watch Gorillaz and Beck debut new collaboration ‘Possession Island’ reside
Gorillaz and Beck debuted a brand new collaboration on the former’s Los Angeles present this weekend (September 23) – watch them carry out ‘Possession Island’ beneath.
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Gorillaz will launch new album ‘Cracker Island’ on February 24, 2023 through Parlophone (pre-order here) and introduced the document lately by sharing newest single ‘New Gold’, that includes Tame Impala and Bootie Brown.
The brand new Beck collaboration will function on the follow-up to 2020’s ‘Music Machine, Season One – Unusual Timez’, and so they carried out it for the primary time on the gig at Los Angeles’ Discussion board on Friday night time, alongside their first collaboration, ‘Unusual Timez’ observe ‘The Valley Of The Pagans’.
Elsewhere on the present, Gorillaz carried out ‘New Gold’ with Tame Impala and Bootie Brown, and debuted ‘Music Machine’ observe ‘Pac-Man’ with ScHoolboy Q.
In addition they carried out the title observe from ‘Cracker Island’ with Thundercat and gave a second efficiency of ‘Rock The Home’ with Del the Funky Homosapien, a tune that was given its reside debut at an earlier present this week, 21 years after its launch.
Watch the reside debut of ‘Possession Island’ and the opposite collaborations beneath.
The digital band has a bunch of collaborators on ‘Cracker Island’, their eighth studio album together with Stevie Nicks, Dangerous Bunny, Adeleye Omotayond and extra, in addition to the aforementioned Beck, Tame Impala and Bootie Brown.
It’s produced by eight-time Grammy Award-winning producer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Greg Kurstin together with Gorillaz and Remi Kabaka Jr.
Press materials about Gorillaz’s new album states: “Initially based mostly at Kong Studios in West London, the group of musical misfits – Murdoc, Noodle, Russel and 2D – have relocated to Silverlake, California as they recruit new members to affix The Last Cult in the hunt for the one reality to repair the world. Stories from the Golden State point out that Murdoc is in love with the woman subsequent door. Russel is glued to the TV. Noodle is compiling a handbook of knowledge and data. And 2D is busy being 2D.”
Guitarist Noodle stated of the their new document: “’Cracker Island’ is the sound of change and the refrain of the collective.” Drummer Russel added: “When the reckoning comes, gotta be able to step via the gateway. Cracker Island’s obtained the entry codes…”.
See the ‘Cracker Island’ tracklist beneath.
1. ‘Cracker Island’ feat. Thundercat
2. ‘Oil’ feat. Stevie Nicks
3. ‘The Drained Influencer’
4. ‘Tarantula’
5. ‘Silent Working’ ft. Adeleye Omotayo
6. ‘New Gold’ feat. Tame Impala & Bootie Brown
7. ‘Child Queen’
8. ‘Tormenta’ feat. Dangerous Bunny
9. ‘Skinny Ape’
10. ‘Possession Island’ (feat. Beck)