Featuring collaborations with Ajay Prasanna, Amaan and Ayaan Ali Bangash, Anoushka Shankar, Asha Bhosle, Bizarrap, Black Thought, Johnny Marr, Trueno, Yasiin Bey, and additional.
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Gorillaz have launched their ninth studio album, ‘The Mountain’, set for launch on March twentieth, 2026, by their new label KONG. The first single, ‘The Happy Dictator’ that features Sparks, is on the market now with an official visualiser.
Recorded all through London, Mumbai, Ashgabat, New York, and completely different cities, the 15-track album brings collectively voices in Arabic, English, Hindi, Spanish, and Yoruba. Collaborators embody Ajay Prasanna, Amaan and Ayaan Ali Bangash, Anoushka Shankar, Asha Bhosle, Bizarrap, Black Thought, Johnny Marr, Trueno, and Yasiin Bey, alongside posthumous appearances by Bobby Womack, Dennis Hopper, Mark E. Smith, Tony Allen, and others.
Produced by Gorillaz, James Ford, Samuel Egglenton, Remi Kabaka Jr., and Bizarrap (on ‘Orange County’), ‘The Mountain’ is described as a meditation on life’s journey and the fun of existence. “As home mud we’re proper right here endlessly and that’s a mighty very very long time. This is a musical meditation infused with light. A journey of the soul, with beats…,” talked about drummer Russel Hobbs.
Visual artist Jamie Hewlett has created the accompanying artwork work, portraying the band’s time in India by a sequence of intricate hand-drawn illustrations, on the market every as a e-book and a bunch of 12×12 prints.
In help of the discharge, Gorillaz will embark on The Mountain Tour, beginning in Manchester on March twenty first, 2026, sooner than touring to Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds, Cardiff, Nottingham, Liverpool, Belfast, and Dublin. A headline stadium current is scheduled for June twentieth, 2026, at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, with Sparks and Trueno changing into a member of as specific firm. Tickets might be discovered proper right here.
The info moreover coincides with the relaunch of Kong Studios, the band’s digital HQ, now revived as an interactive on-line fan platform.
Listen to ‘The Happy Dictator’ beneath and protected your copy proper right here.
Pre-order ‘The Mountain’ proper right here.
