Gorillaz

As society and the music industry recovered fully in 2022, it proved to be a very fruitful year. With a plethora of new albums, concerts and announcements on the horizon, 2023 looks to be as busy. In fact, without making wild suggestions,…

As much as there are innovative and mesmerising electronic artists out there, it is getting more and more difficult to stand out in what is a saturated market. Plenty of subfields have been plumbed to death, like digitally infused post-rock…

Rolled out over the course of 2020 with monthly episodic installments dating back to January, Gorillaz' seventh studio album dropped as a full-length LP at the tail end of October, arriving as part of the larger audiovisual project that…

At the turn of the millennium, there seemed to be a collective consciousness among musicians, engendering a radical shift in the perspective of their work. It was a period of cutting-edge production – a pinnacle for IDM, indie rock, emo and…

You may have noticed that in recent years, films based on video games have become a genre in themselves and are often holiday blockbusters. Franchises such as Assassin's Creed, Tomb Raider, and Resident Evil are just a few of the…

With neither a Dave nor an ENCORE in sight, Colm O’Regan and Craig Fitzpatrick put the music world to rights for another week. Will they go ape for the new Gorillaz album? Is Katy Perry’s latest track as tasty as it appears? And what’s…

Gorillaz Humanz For Gorillaz, a group long-obsessed with combing through society’s issues and fears, it couldn’t seem like a better time to make a return. Modern culture is at a feverishly-bleak, anxious high, with social media only…

That's a reference to both a film starring Clint Eastwood and Jessica Walter and the NO ENCORE featured album review this week which, incidentally, kinda-sorta divides the room as Dave, Colm and Craig reconvene to make sense of all the…

How do you define Blur? The band forged their career by stylistically swerving left and right as dueling talents Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon fought for control of the wheel. By 1997 they’d built their fortune on cheeky characters, sticky…