Gorillaz are back. Plastic Beach represents their most ambitious and groundbreaking album to date. It features a roster of contributors so diverse it numbers not just Lou Reed, Snoop Dogg, Mark E Smith, De La Soul, Mos Def and Bobby Womack, but The National Orchestra Of Arabic Music and Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, a Chicago-based nine-piece jazz/hip-hop group. Also appearing are Mick Jones and Paul Simonon, playing together for the first time since The Clash. The ongoing saga of singer 2D, bassist Murdoc Niccals, guitarist Noodle and drummer Russel Hobbs is leant a latest twist with the unveiling of a new look for the group. Now based at Plastic Beach, a mammoth Tracy Island-style HQ atop a floating trash pile at Point Nemo in the South Pacific, the place furthest from land on Earth, we find the meddlesome Murdoc now running the show more than ever, keeping 2D held prisoner while being protected by a cyborg Noodle - built from the DNA of the original Japanese girl guitarist, last seen having bombs dropped on her head in 2006's El Mañana' video. Drummer Russel, meantime, is currently missing in action.

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