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.

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 ...

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 ...

We’re still waiting for a new Gorillaz album to surface, but the high-concept project has just shared a new multimedia story on social media. Titled “The Book of Noodle,” the yarn stars ...

Next year marks the 25th anniversary of Gorillaz ‘s self-titled debut album (which gave us one of the most inventive music videos of the 21st century ), but the virtual band is getting the party ...

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 ...

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 ...

Damon Albarn and bandmates will perform the virtual group’s first three albums, Gorillaz, Demon Days, and Plastic Beach in full at the Copper Box ... who draws the virtual members 2-D, Noodle, Murdoc ...

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 ...

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 ...