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Gorillaz' Plastic Beach
Paperback
Series: 33 1/3
General MusicPop/RockMusic Reference
Publisher Price: $14.95
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Nov 26 2026
Pages: 152
Language: English
Gorillaz were, from the very beginning, as much conceptual art as they were a musical group. A collaboration between Albarn and visual artist Jamie Hewlett, the project was conceived as a virtual band that could comment on the empty and manufactured nature of popular culture. They quickly expanded into videos, books, and games which detailed a complex and surreal mythology and engaged with a variety of social and political issues. But Plastic Beach took this to a new level.
Damon Albarn's encounter with plastic pollution at Hallsands Beach inspired the album's meditations on the Anthropocene - an epoch marked by significant human impact on Earth's geology and ecosystems. The book positions Plastic Beach as a concept album that reflects on the Anthropocene, combining commentary on environmental degradation and consumer culture with attempts to imagine a future beyond the rapacity and destructiveness of this era.Also in
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