The cartoon band have been recording material backstage
on their preset world tour, and the group’s main musician, Damon Albarn, has
previously said he was keen to release the end results before the year was
over.
Now the group have revealed the album – which Damon has
largely made using his iPad computer - will be given away free behind the final
door on their Christmas countdown calendar.
Damon revealed: “On Christmas Eve (24.12.10), a video for
one of the new songs from the iPad album will be released. Then, on Christmas
Day (25.12.10), fans get the whole album downloaded to their computer for free
as a gift.”
The album coincides with the group completing their
largest world tour to date and Damon said he wanted the album’s release to be
as soon as possible after their last ‘Escape From Plastic Beach’ live shows.
He added to website Perth Now: “I literally made it on the road in America over a month. I didn’t write it before; I didn’t prepare it.
“If I left it until the New Year to release it, then the
cynics out there would say, ‘Oh well, it’s been tampered with.’ But if I put it
out now, they’d know that I haven’t done anything, because I’ve been on tour
ever since.”
Explaining his intended sound for the album, Damon has
previously said: “It sounds like an English voice that has been put through the
vocoder of America. It's a studio album made in hotel rooms around
America."
Gorillaz’ advent calendar is available from
http://gorillaz.com/xmas
