33 1/3 Gorillaz' Plastic Beach [PRE-ORDER 11/26]

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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.

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Author: Ihor Junyk
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Pages: 152pp
Size: 5 x 7.75
Notes: paperback
Release Date: November 26, 2026
ISBN: 979-8765132852