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Albums Of The Week: Gorillaz | Cracker Island

The world's most popular cartoon band are as colourful and animated as ever on their eighth LP — with the help of VIPs like Beck, Tame Impala and Stevie Nicks.

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE:Cracker Island is the eighth studio album from Gorillaz, an energetic, upbeat, genre-expansive collection of 10 tracks featuring yet another stellar line-up of artist collaborators: Thundercat, Tame Impala, Bad Bunny, Stevie Nicks, Adeleye Omotayo, Bootie Brown and Beck.

Recorded in London and L.A. earlier this year, it was produced by Gorillaz, Remi Kabaka Jr. and eight-time Grammy-winning producer / multi-instrumentalist / songwriter extraordinaire Greg Kurstin. The title track kickstarted the new campaign last summer, hitting the charts across the globe with a top 10 video racking up 10 million views in 10 days. The virtual band also exploded onto TikTok, gaining over 2.1 million followers in the space of a few months, and continue to innovate, taking virtual characters where no character has been before.”