It’s official now.The work has started. We haven’t heard from them in a while, but Gorillaz’s Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett announced that a new album is in the works. The release date: sometime in 2016.
Originally the promise for it to begin were scheduled for September.
Hewlett now speaks of “shutting himself” to hammer it out.
“I’m working on it at the moment, and it’s going very well,” Hewlett says, “I’m very excited. I don’t want to say too much about it, but I’m at that phase of experimentation. What I try not to do when I’m working in this creative period, the cooking of the mess, is go to other peoples’ exhibitions and look at other peoples’ work. I close my eyes, and don’t want to know what anyone else is doing. Doing that has kind of ruined the creative process for me in the past, and I don’t want to let that happen again.”
Hewlett, the band member responsible for the band’s iconic animations has even been posting new artwork on Instagram.
Image Source: Jamie Hewlett
Image Source:
Jamie Hewlett
Image Source:
Jamie Hewlett
That will make it 6 years since we’ve heard anything from them–Plastic Beach and of course an iPad only record The Fall.
