It’s incredible to think that Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s animated quartet Gorillaz have now been going for more than twenty years. Since officially ‘forming’ in 1998, the virtual group has gone through numerous changes both musical and creative, mutating and evolving with the times while always retaining a signature sound of their own.
That’s the wonder of Gorillaz, in that there’s such a wealth of creativity and innovation contained within the band’s many different phases, drawing upon such a range of styles and influences that it can be hard to pin them down or neatly categorise them as this, that or the other.
