Gorillaz have launched a deluxe version of latest album ‘Cracker Island’ that includes an extra 5 tracks – hear under.
The band’s star-studded new album got here out final week (February 24), and Sunday (February 27) noticed the band increase the document with various bonus tracks.
Included within the further songs are all-new tracks ‘Captain Rooster’ (that includes Del The Funky Homosapien), ‘Controllah’ (that includes MC Bin Laden) and ‘Crockadillaz’ (that includes De La Soul and Daybreak Penn), together with a ‘2D Piano Model’ of ‘Silent Working’ (that includes Adeleye Omotayo), and a Dom Dolla remix of Tame Impala and Bootie Brown collaboration ‘New Gold’.
‘Cracker Island’ is the follow-up to 2020’s ‘Tune Machine, Season One – Unusual Timez‘. The digital band, headed up by Damon Albarn, has a number of collaborators on their eighth studio album together with Stevie Nicks, Unhealthy Bunny, Beck, Thundercat, Adeleye Omotayond and extra.
Take heed to the expanded model of ‘Cracker Island’ under.
Reviewing ‘Cracker Island’, NME wrote: “Albarn and his crew seem unburdened by dwelling as much as an idea, and as a substitute flip in a persistently pleasant document that exhibits why they continue to be related thus far into their profession.
“A band that was as soon as thought of mucking about on the periphery of pop are actually very a lot defining the current and galvanizing the longer term. You possibly can be doing a lot worse for album eight, eh?”
Elsewhere, Albarn has confirmed {that a} feature-length Gorillaz movie that was within the works at Netflix has been cancelled.
The frontman first introduced the movie in October 2020 earlier than confirming the band had been working with Netflix on it simply over a 12 months later.
“I’m at Netflix as a result of we’re making a full-length Gorillaz movie with Netflix,” he mentioned on the time. “Yeah, we’re having a writing session in Malibu this afternoon. It’s actually thrilling to do this. It’s one thing we’ve been desirous to do for a really very long time. It’s been via so many incarnations…this Gorillaz doing a film. Actually.
However resulting from a reduce within the streaming platform’s animation division, Albarn has now confirmed that “it would by no means occur.”
Albarn additionally revealed final week that, after Gorillaz’ divisive Glastonbury headline set in 2010, Kate Bush phoned to inform him it was “among the best exhibits she’d ever seen”.