Gorillaz may have originated as a way for Damon Albarn to sidestep the limelight, but on the cartoon group’s third album, “Plastic Beach,” he very much takes center stage.

With Plastic Beach, the characters (in every sense) of Gorillaz find their virtual identities mirrored in the music. Listeners have become used to the idea of a cartoon band. What’s new on Plastic ...

The latest Gorillaz album, Plastic Beach, is one of those rare critical ... The group they invented, made up of fictional cartoon avatars, went on to score several worldwide hits on the strength ...

On the Gorillaz’s most recent album Plastic Beach, mastermind Damon Albarn pushes his post-human cartoon rock saga to the next level. After burning down the group’s headquarters, Kong Studios ...

a multimedia story following Noodle after the events of Plastic Beach. That’s the animated band’s fictional keyboard player and guitarist—and their third album was Plastic Beach.

As is the style for Damon Albarn’s genre-bending, cartoon collective Gorillaz, their upcoming album, Plastic Beach, is being promoted with loads of digital goodies. Today, the band tweeted a ...

Next year marks the 25th anniversary of Gorillaz ‘s self-titled debut album (which gave us one of the most inventive music ...

Leave it to a fake band to make a concept album about a plastic society sound so real. Leave it to the synthesizers that create most of the sounds and melodies on "Plastic Beach," the ambitious new ...

Forget the cartoon characters. Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett's animated misfits have always been mainly interesting as a concept, and on much of the third Gorillaz album, Plastic Beach ...

that he is almost as hard to quantify and identify as the Gorillaz: Murdoc, his mate 2D, Russell Hobbs and the now-departed Noodle. Impressive ... Plastic Beach. So now Gorillaz aren't an escape ...

Graham Coxon must hate it when someone mentions that his old foe/bandmate Damon Albarn’s cartoon band Gorillaz sold more ... does on Plastic Beach, a concept album about a floating island ...