Gorillaz's new album 'The Mountain' wants to 'leave the listener feeling optimistic' about death
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It’s a Wednesday afternoon in West Hollywood, one day after the city was blanketed in a light coating of rain.The midday sun has only just begun to peek through the overcast sky.Its beams are slightly more vivid through the large windows of the Edition, which sit at the edge of a secluded area of the hotel.
Jamie Hewlett sits at a wooden table stirring a cappucino with a black straw.“I mean, who drinks out of a straw when you get past the age of 10, right?” he says, jokingly.After 25 years of bouncing around the globe with Gorillaz, he’s still longing for a jet lag cure.
Coffee can only do so much.Leaning back in his chair, in a suave, all-beige outfit, he starts to grin while recounting his day in Los Angeles.“We’ve been walking around the streets having a very rare morning off together.We bought some weed, which is always one of the most wonderful things about this state,” he recalls.
Music Recent upheaval threatens KCRW’s identity as an independent curator of diverse music for Southern California audiences amid financial pressures and algorithm-driven competition.He also finds humor in L.A.’s obsession with driver-less food delivery.“Every time we saw a post-bot driving down the road, we stopped and doffed our caps....
In the future, when robots take over and destroy us all, they’ll remember me for being nice to the post-bot!”It’s been a long few weeks for Hewlett and bandmate Damon Albarn as they roll out the group’s latest endeavor, “The Mountain,” out Friday.Just one day prior, “House of Kong” opened at Rolling Greens in downtown L.A.
The exhibition, initially intended as a Gorillaz 25th anniversary event, has landed on the West Coast.“I think with this album, we were both quite happy with what we’ve done … and feeling like it was an honest, genuine adventure that was taken, and what we’ve given is something that we’re pro...