Gorillaz have confirmed that their next album will be released in 2025.
Speaking to the French publication Les Inrockuptibles earlier this week, Damon Albarn revealed that he’s recently been “finishing a new Gorillaz album,” which he alluded would arrive later this year. Referencing the project and his new opera — The Magic Flute II: La Malédiction, which opened this week in Paris — he said, “One opera and one new Gorillaz album seems like enough for 2025! Unless someone accuses me of taking my foot off the gas!”
The news was further confirmed by Gorillaz illustrator Jamie Hewlett, who supposedly replied to the fan page, everythingorillaz, saying “Yes the new album is coming out this year.”
Additional details are largely unknown at this time, but word of a new Gorillaz album has been around since 2023, when Albarn wrapped his reunion with Blur and indicated he was ready to focus on the beloved animated project again. Speaking to Les Inrockuptibles that December, he said he was going “to India with Jamie [Hewlett] to start working on a new Gorillaz album.”
Now, the album is nearly finished, and will be in the public’s hands soon. It will mark the first full-length release from Gorillaz since Cracker Island arrived in February 2023.
Just a few months after Cracker Island arrived, Albarn joined with Blur again to release their ninth album, The Ballad of Darren, which was followed by a tour that concluded with the band’s performances at Coachella 2024. Onstage, Albarn suggested that it would be their “last gig.”
More recently, Albarn participated alongside 1,000 other artists in the silent album, Is This What We Want?, released to protest the UK government’s proposed changes to copyright law to allow AI companies to train their models using copyrighted work without a license.
