Album Review: Gorillaz - Plastic Beach

To obtain a glimpse inside Damon Albarn’s mind would be a wondrous thing, such is the overabundance of ideas he seems to conjure up and subsequently be involved in. And in some ways it’s for that reason that a third Gorillaz album seemed like an unlikely prospect. Even, as it turns out, for Albarn and accomplice Jaime Hewlett who had originally planned on something much grander; a piece of work that would retain their trademark collaborations, but lose the animated misfits who front their virtual band. But when that project (reportedly entitled Carousel) didn’t pan out, a new Gorillaz album is what we’ve received instead.

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