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GORILLAZ: THE FALL

Animated simians set to release 'The Fall' on vinyl for Record Store Day

So, your favourite animated band released ‘The Fall’ as a Christmas gift last year – there was only one catch though: you had to be a member of their fan club to receive it. And you have to pay to be a member of the fan club. Non cool.

Anyway, good news for the rest of us – ‘The Fall’ is set to be released on vinyl for Record Store Day on 16th April, with a release on CD and download to follow on 18th April. Put it in your calendars. Haven’t had a chance to listen to it yet, but it was recorded during the Gorillaz 19 date North American tour last autumn – ON AN iPAD. Pretty nifty.

2D says: “Uhmmm….The first Gorillaz album, our debut record, was more Russel’s…like… lots of hip-hop, funk and Cuban dub stars. Demon Days right, came more from Noodle and her dark doomy demos that she made, and all of her contemplations on the world ‘in a place of night’. Plastic Beach came out mainly from Murdoc’s head, all of his mucky exploits and global collaborations and legendary mash-ups recorded on the Plastic Beach island in the middle of the ocean. Very rum and piratey… And this one The Fall, is mostly just me…something more gentle and just…well…it’s just me and an iPad really mucking about…trying out some stuff. Just looking at America and then tapping on the screen…I’m not really concentrating too hard on it….So, right, each album got all of us on it somewhere, but each time it’s… more of one of us than the others….Well, that’s how I see it anyway.”

Here’s the video for ‘Phoner to Arizona’:

More on Record Store Day here. Support your local record store! Keep buying vinyl! Ain’t nothing like it.