Gorillaz new album releasedfree on Christmas Day

Thu 9th Dec, 2010 in International News

When FasterLouder recently spoke to Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn he revealed that he’d been making a new Gorillaz album on his iPad while touring in across America – “I’ve made this sort of diary record on the road here so I finish that in a couple of day’s time and I’d like to put that out in some way or another before Christmas.”

Albarn and Gorillaz co-founder Jamie Hewlett have now confirmed that the record will be the final gift offered to fans as part of their online Advent calender. In an interview with Perth Now Hewlett says that “on Christmas Eve, a video for one of the new songs from the iPad album will be released. Then, on Christmas Day, fans get the whole album downloaded to their computer for free as a gift.” The calender will offer fans gifts including soundcheck footage, Gorillaz masks and desktop wallpaper, with another treat each day in the lead up to Christmas.

Albarn explained that he wants the album to came out at the end of the tour because he doesn’t want anyone to think he has “tampered with it”. As he boasted in the interview: “I literally made it on the road in America over a month. I didn’t write it before; I didn’t prepare it. I just did it day by day as a kind of diary of my experience in America. If I left it until the New Year to release it, then the cynics out there would say, ‘Oh well, it’s been tampered with.’ But if I put it out now, they’d know that I haven’t done anything because I’ve been on tour ever since.”