{"id":2302718,"date":"2026-02-27T08:45:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T08:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2302718"},"modified":"2026-02-27T08:45:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T08:45:04","slug":"gorillaz-the-mountain-new-music-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/gorillaz-the-mountain-new-music-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Gorillaz \u2013 The Mountain: New Music Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><\/p>\n<h3>Damon Albarn has released his latest Gorillaz album on New Music Friday \u2013 revisit Live4ever\u2019s review and stream \u2018The Mountain\u2019 right here.<\/h3>\n<p>As we know by now, 25 years in,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.live4ever.uk.com\/tag\/Gorillaz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Gorillaz<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0albums are usually defined by a theme, be that a dystopian concept, pop immediacy or the unmistakable melancholy of Damon Albarn.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/gorillaz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Mountain<\/a>\u00a0attempts to hold all three at once in what is their most ambitious effort yet; their ninth studio record is expansive yet intimate, cartoonish yet devotional: vast in both scope and sentiment.<\/p>\n<div id=\"live4-1142694554\" class=\"live4-content\"><\/p>\n<p>\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tidd.ly\/4bDefTQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"sponsored\"><img width=\"468\" height=\"70\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.live4ever.uk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/townsend_banner.jpg\" alt=\"townsendmusic banner\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>At its heart lies the death of parents for both Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett. In the former\u2019s case, Keith Albarn\u2019s love of Hindu art and Ravi Shankar shaped the album\u2019s spiritual direction following the Blur man scattering his ashes in Varanasi.<\/p>\n<p>The result is a meditation on mortality and samsara (the cycle of life, death and rebirth) with Anoushka Shankar (daughter of the legendary Ravi) and her sitar acting as both musical guide and symbolic bridge.<\/p>\n<p>At surface level, the Gorillaz narrative finds Murdoc et al retreating from fame to mystical highlands, but the real journey spanned London, Devon, New Delhi, New York and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>As on Plastic Beach and Humanz the cast is vast, but unlike those earlier records the collaborators feel embedded rather than spotlighted.<\/p>\n<p>Tying into The Mountain\u2019s themes of the next life, some no longer with us such as Bobby Womack, Tony Allen, Mark E Smith and Proof are woven seamlessly into its tapestry.<\/p>\n<p>Anoushka Shankar\u2019s sitar glows with evocative warmth on the opening title-track, immediately asserting the location while ushering listeners into an album that takes its time.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.live4ever.uk.com\/gorillaz-the-mountain-album-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here for the review in full<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: The Mountain\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/1RvJmGd47lKS4XMXs9j8hD?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.live4ever.uk.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damon Albarn has released his latest Gorillaz album on New Music Friday \u2013 revisit Live4ever\u2019s review and stream \u2018The Mountain\u2019 right here. As we know by now, 25 years in,\u00a0Gorillaz\u00a0albums are usually defined by a theme, be that a dystopian concept, pop immediacy or the unmistakable melancholy of Damon Albarn. The Mountain\u00a0attempts to hold all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2302719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2302718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Gorillaz-\u2013-The-Mountain-New-Music-Friday.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2302718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2302720,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302718\/revisions\/2302720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2302719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2302718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2302718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2302718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}