{"id":10219,"date":"2025-09-11T19:45:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T19:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/10219\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T19:45:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T19:45:06","slug":"gorillaz-announce-new-album-the-mountain-and-european-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/10219\/","title":{"rendered":"Gorillaz Announce New Album ‘The Mountain’ and European Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tGorillaz have announced<\/a> a new album \u201cThe Mountain,\u201d releasing March 20, 2026, as well as a European tour to coincide with the record.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe group, created by Damon Albarn<\/a> and Jamie Hewlett, will drop its ninth record and first-ever album on its own new label KONG. They released the first track, \u201cThe Happy Dictator,\u201d featuring Sparks, and the album is set to feature guest appearances from Black Thought, Yasiin Bey, Johnny Marr, Anoushka Shankar, Dennis Hopper, Bizarrap and many more.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Mountain\u201d was recorded at Studio 13 in London and Devon, as well as various locations in India. Additional sessions took place in Los Angeles, Ashgabat, Damascus, New York and Miami. \u201cThe Mountain\u201d was produced by Gorillaz<\/a>, James Ford, Samuel Egglenton and Remi Kabaka Jr., plus Bizarrap (Orange County). It will feature artists performing in five languages including Arabic, English, Hindi, Spanish and Yoruba. According to a release, the artwork illustrates the members of Gorillaz \u2014 2D, Murdoc Niccals, Russel Hobbs and Noodle \u2014 working on the album in India. It will be available as a book and a collection of 12\u00d712 prints.<\/p>\n

\n\tAdditionally, Gorillaz have announced \u201cThe Mountain Tour\u201d slated to kick off in Manchester on March 21. The band will make stops in Glasgow, Cardiff and Dublin before concluding with a one-off show at London\u2019s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on June 20.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe release states that \u201ccircumstances now find Murdoc Niccals, Russel Hobbs, 2D and Noodle in India, having made their way to Mumbai with the help of four fake passports courtesy of a New York business acquaintance of Murdoc. The band has turned its back on international pop stardom, with our heroes now immersed in the rhythms of mystical music-making, as they navigate the mountainous terrain of this thing called life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCheck out the tracklist and tour dates below:<\/p>\n

The Mountain (feat. Dennis Hopper, Ajay Prasanna, Anoushka Shankar, Amaan Ali Bangash and Ayaan Ali Bangash)<\/p>\n

The Moon Cave (feat. Asha Puthli, Bobby Womack, Dave Jolicoeur, Jalen Ngonda and Black Thought)<\/p>\n

The Happy Dictator (feat. Sparks)<\/p>\n

The Hardest Thing (feat. Tony Allen)<\/p>\n

Orange County (feat. Bizarrap, Kara Jackson and Anoushka Shankar)<\/p>\n

The God of Lying (feat. IDLES)<\/p>\n

The Empty Dream Machine (feat. Black Thought, Johnny Marr and Anoushka Shankar)<\/p>\n

The Manifesto (feat. Trueno and Proof)<\/p>\n

The Plastic Guru (feat. Johnny Marr and Anoushka Shankar)<\/p>\n

Delirium (feat. Mark E. Smith)<\/p>\n

Damascus (feat. Omar Souleyman and Yasiin Bey)<\/p>\n

The Shadowy Light (feat. Asha Bhosle, Gruff Rhys, Ajay Prasanna, Amaan Ali Bangash and Ayaan Ali Bangash)<\/p>\n

Casablanca (feat. Paul Simonon and Johnny Marr)<\/p>\n

The Sweet Prince (feat. Ajay Prasanna, Johnny Marr and Anoushka Shankar)<\/p>\n

The Sad God (feat. Black Thought, Ajay Prasanna and Anoushka Shankar)<\/p>\n

\n\tGorillaz \u2013 The Mountain Tour 2026 \u2013 Dates:
March 21 \u2013 MANCHESTER, Co-op Live
March 22 \u2013 BIRMINGHAM, bp pulse LIVE
March 24 \u2013 GLASGOW, OVO Hydro*
March 25 \u2013 LEEDS, First Direct Arena*
March 27 \u2013 CARDIFF, Utilita Arena*
March 28 \u2013 NOTTINGHAM, Motorpoint Arena*
March 29 \u2013 LIVERPOOL, M&S Bank Arena*
March 31 \u2013 BELFAST, SSE Arena*
April 1 \u2013 DUBLIN, 3Arena*<\/p>\n

\n\t*support from Trueno<\/p>\n

\n\tJune 20 \u2013 LONDON, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
With support from Sparks and Trueno<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gorillaz have announced a new album \u201cThe Mountain,\u201d releasing March 20, 2026, as well as a European tour…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[11150,146,11151,85,46,409],"class_list":{"0":"post-10219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-damon-albarn","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-gorillaz","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}