Gorillaz' Plastic Beach
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Description
Gorillaz were, from the very beginning, as much conceptual art as they were a musical group. A collaboration between Albarn and visual artist Jamie Hewlett, the project was conceived as a “virtual band” that could comment on the empty and manufactured nature of popular culture. They quickly expanded into videos, books, and games which detailed a complex and surreal mythology and engaged with a variety of social and political issues. But Plastic Beach took this to a new level.
Damon Albarn's encounter with plastic pollution at Hallsands Beach inspired the album's meditations on the Anthropocene – an epoch marked by significant human impact on Earth's geology and ecosystems. The book positions Plastic Beach as a concept album that reflects on the Anthropocene, combining commentary on environmental degradation and consumer culture with attempts to imagine a future beyond the rapacity and destructiveness of this era.
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Table of Contents
2. Of Cli-Fi and Concept Albums
3. Utopia, Dystopia, Apocalypse
4. “Some Kind of Nature”: Authenticity and Simulacra in the Age of the Anthropocene
5. Mourning and Melancholia
6. Towards a Music of the Anthropocene
Product details
| Published | Nov 12 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 160 |
| ISBN | 9798765132876 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Series | 33 1/3 |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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