but trying to get that into pop music is a challenge, anyway.

It was a strange kind of optimism that I felt. And just seeing the snakes like living in the warmth of decomposing plastic bags. We didn't create plastic, nature created plastic. I've always felt, I'm trying to get across on this new record, the idea that plastic, we see it as being against nature but it's come out of nature. And for the first time I saw the world in a new way. like adders, grass snakes, slow worms, toads, frogs, newts, all kinds of rodents, all kinds of squirrels, a massive amount of squirrels, a massive amount of foxes, and obviously, seagulls.

The first time Albarn went to Mali, he was taken to a landfill where he saw people 'taking every little bit, a little bit of fabric to the fabric regenerators, or the metal and the cans to the ironsmiths and the aluminium recyclers, and it goes on and by the time you get to the road, they're selling stuff.'When Albarn went to a landfill outside of London to record the sound of seagulls for the album, he noticed a juxtaposition between the way the two countries dealt with rubbish. People who watch X Factor might have some emotional connection to these things, this detritus that accompanies what seems to be the most important thing in people's eyes, the celebrity voyeurism.' trying to make people understand the essential melancholy of buying a ready made meal in loads of plastic packaging.

Smith, Lou Reed, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, sinfonia ViVA and The Lebanese National Orchestra for Oriental Arabic Music.Īlbarn said in an interview, 'I'm making this one the most pop record I've ever made in many ways, but with all my experience to try and at least present something that has got depth.' He added, 'I suppose what I've done with this Gorillaz record is I've tried to connect pop sensibility with. The album features guest performances by Snoop Dogg, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Kano, Bashy, Bobby Womack, Mos Def, Gruff Rhys, De La Soul, Little Dragon, Mark E. Plastic Beach is the upcoming third studio album by the virtual band Gorillaz, due for release in March 2010.

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