Plastic Beach

Plastic Beach is the third studio album by the band Gorillaz. It was released in March 2010.

Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett started in November 2007 with a Gorillaz project called Carousel, which should be no new album first and was for a while only concepts. 2008, the two then decided to record a new album with the Gorillaz characters should be represented but under new aspects, because Hewlett was tired to draw the characters. The shooting began then in June 2008, inter alia, has worked in Beirut with the National Orchestra for Oriental Arabic Music. There were also a number of top guest singers who lent the songs Additional Voices, including Bobby Womack, Kano, Mos Def, Gruff Rhys, Snoop Dogg, Lou Reed and Mark E. Smith, also played the ex- Clash members Mick Jones and Paul Simonon the title track Plastic Beach. A song with The Horrors made ​​it in the end not even on the album. It was recorded in Derby and Devon (England) and Damascus ( Syria).

The idea behind the album was to combine pop with a statement and to give it more depth so. The album name refers to the way how our society and nature to deal with the huge amounts of plastic waste produced, based on impressions gathered in Mali Albarn and London.

The Popansatz was confirmed by many critics, but accepted positively. Andreas Borcholte wrote in Spiegel.de:

Pitchfork has named it the Best New Music, Music Express when it was album of the month. It reached # 2 on the charts in England and the U.S. and number 3 in Germany.

The first video for the single Stylo, which was published on 26 January 2010, fell by two things: on the one played by Bruce Willis, on the other hand it showed the characters for the first time as 3D models in contrast to the previous 2D animations.

Guest appearances

The album features guest appearances by the musicians and bands Snoop Dogg, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Kano, Bashy, Bobby Womack, Mos Def, Gruff Rhys, De La Soul, Little Dragon, Mark E. Smith, Lou Reed, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, sinfonia ViVA and The Lebanese National Orchestra for Oriental Arabic Music.

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