New album drops Feb 24, 2023
Following the long, hazy heatwave basking in the beats of summer banger “Cracker Island” featuring Thundercat, Gorillaz announces the release of their new studio album, Cracker Island, is due February 24, 2023 via Parlophone. The set will be available in a variety of formats including CD with booklet and poster, black 12-inch vinyl, transparent purple 12-inch vinyl and cassette with four exclusive character art options.
The label is offering a deluxe vinyl box set with opaque pink 12-inch vinyl, CD, “Cracker Island” 7-inch etched single with alternative artwork, The Last Cult Pink Pocket Notebook, five art prints, poster and sticker sheet. A limited edition numbered collector’s box will also be available featuring 10 colored 7-inch singles of the album’s tracks. The vinyls are packaged separately in matte varnish sleeves containing exclusive character art. Products are housed in a lift off lid box with alternative art. Only 2,000 will be pressed.
They also release their hotly anticipated new track “New Gold” featuring Tame Impala & Bootie Brown, performed live for the first time to a sold out crowd of ecstatic fans at London’s All Points East Festival earlier this month. The band was joined on stage by Tame Impala, the psychedelic music project of Australian multi-instrumentalist Kevin Parker, and longtime collaborator Bootie Brown of South Central LA alternative hip hop group The Pharcyde.
“Cracker Island is the sound of change and the chorus of the collective,” shares guitarist Noodle.
Cracker Island is the eighth studio album from Gorillaz, an energetic, upbeat, genre-expansive collection of 10 tracks featuring yet another stellar lineup of artist collaborators including Stevie Nicks, Adeleye Omotayo, Thundercat, Tame Impala, Bad Bunny and Bootie Brown and Beck. Recorded in London and LA earlier this year, it is produced by 8x Grammy Award-winning producer/multi-instrumentalist/songwriter Greg Kurstin, Gorillaz and Remi Kabaka Jr.
Originally based at Kong Studios in West London, the group of musical misfits – Murdoc, Noodle, Russel and 2D – have relocated to Silverlake, California as they recruit new members to join The Last Cult, in search of the one truth to fix the world. Reports from the Golden State indicate that Murdoc is in love with the lady next door. Russel is glued to the TV. Noodle is compiling a handbook of wisdom and knowledge. And 2D is busy being 2D.
Gorillaz kicked off summer in a delirium of police lights and hallucinations, with the epic psychedelic video for “Cracker Island featuring Thundercat dropping in July. Directed by artist and Gorillaz co-creator Jamie Hewlett and the Emmy nominated director, Fx Goby, “Cracker Island” – which takes viewers on a late night journey into the City of Angels – hit the Top 10 in YouTube’s Music Video Charts in Ireland, the UK, US, Australia and Canada, and is now at almost 12.5 million views after racking up 10 million views in 10 days. The video drop also blew up the band’s Tiktok with the account hitting two million followers and counting.
The extensive Gorillaz World Tour 2022 which started in South America earlier in the year has seen the band thrilling crowds in Europe and Australia, the group’s first visit down under in 12 years, before a one-off homecoming show in London at All Points East last week. A hugely anticipated US run of shows in September and October will kick off in Vancouver on September 11th.
- Cracker Island featuring Thundercat
- Oil featuring Stevie Nicks
- The Tired Influencer
- Tarantula
- Silent Running featuring Adeleye Omotayo
- New Gold featuring Tame Impala & Bootie Brown
- Baby Queen
- Tormenta featuring Bad Bunny
- Skinny Ape
- Possession Island featuring Beck
