'Plastic Beach has sprung a leak!' Gorillaz member Murdoc Niccals tweets about band's upcoming album.
By James Montgomery
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Photo: MTV
One day after they were announced as headliners of the 2010 Coachella festival, the Gorillaz sprung a leak.
On Wednesday (January 20), "Stylo" — the reported first single from their upcoming Plastic Beach album — hit the Net, hours before it was due to premiere on Britain's NME Radio. The song, a moody bit of ominous synth-pop, features vocals from Damon Albarn (of course), Mos Def and (reportedly) funk/soul legend Bobby Womack.
Plastic Beach is scheduled to hit stores in March. In a recent interview with London's The Guardian, Albarn said the album features cameos by not just Mos and Womack, but De La Soul, Snoop Dogg, Lou Reed and the Bee Gees' Barry Gibb too.
A spokesperson for the band could not be reached for comment about "Stylo" or the new Gorillaz album, but on his Twitter account, resident Gorillaz madman Murdoc Niccals not only confirmed that the song is legit, but blamed its leakage on none other than Russian pirates.
"A leak! A leak! Plastic Beach has sprung a leak!" he wrote. "One of those Russian pirates has put a bullet hole on my island! My single's leaked! 'STYLO!' "
Beach is the proper follow-up to the Gorillaz's 2005 hit Demon Days album and the first since Albarn and co-creator Jamie Hewlett contemplated retiring the group for good.
"We're putting Gorillaz back on the shelf ... and working on other things for a while," Albarn told MTV News in 2006. "It's been brilliant, and this time it's been a runaway success, so why not just leave it like that? So we're retiring. We've been taking notes and we're going to do it hip-hop style, like Jay-Z."
And, much like Jigga, they're back already.
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