Damon Albarn has announced that a third Gorillaz album is imminent -- and it'll be "the most pop record" he's ever made.
As Albarn explained in an interview with the Guardian, the album -- which he confirmed will be called Plastic Beach -- is "nearly finished," and that it's a reaction to how UK reality show The X Factor has dominated all things pop in Britain.
"I'm making this album the most pop record I've ever made in many ways, but with all my experience to present something with some depth to it," Albarn told the Guardian.
"I've tried to connect pop sensibility with trying to make people understand the essential melancholy of buying a ready made meal in loads of plastic packaging. People who watch X Factor might have some emotional connection to these things, that detritus that accompanies what seems the most essential thing in people's lives these days, the celebrity, the voyeurism."
No official release date has been set, but the paper reports Plastic Beach should surface sometime in 2010. (Previous reports suggested that it could debut before the end March '10.)
As per Gorillaz albums past, Albarn has recruited an A-Team of collaborators for the pop/animation project. And while he told the Guardian there was one name on his wishlist he failed to get, thriftstore record section mainstay, Englebert Humperdinck ("You win some, and you lose some," said Albarn), Rolling Stone reports Snoop Dogg, Lou Reed, Barry Gibb, Bobby Womack, Mos Def and the Horrors all appear on the disc.
Gorillaz last album, Demon Days, debuted on the UK charts at No. 1 in 2005.
In other Albarn-related news, his summertime travels on the Blur reunion tour have been captured on film -- which will soon be coming to theatres. A new documentary about the band, and their 2009 reunion concerts -- No Distance Left To Run -- is due for a Jan. 19 release date, NME reports. Watch the trailer below.
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