Plastic Beach is the third studio album by British virtual band Gorillaz. Conceived from an unfinished project called Carousel , the album was recorded from June to November , and was produced primarily by group co-creator Damon Albarn. Smith , Bashy , Kano , and Little Dragon.
Plastic Beach received mostly positive reviews on release and was later named by several critics as one of the decade's best albums. In , the album was ranked at 66 on the Best Albums of the Century list by Stacker.
It debuted at number two on the US Billboard with , copies sold in its first week; overall it reached the top 10 in 22 countries in total. The creators of Gorillaz , musician Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett , began working on a new Gorillaz project in November called Carousel , [ 2 ] which evolved into Plastic Beach , the group's third studio album.
Those were presented as by 'the Who' even though none of the members of the band were in the movies. But it's the same people working on it, that's the principle. That's my ideal model β Gorillaz is a group of people who gave you this, and now want to give you new stuff. In the Observer interview, Hewlett said that there is "a new project which Damon and I are working on now, called Carousel , which is even bigger and more difficult than Monkey , and it isn't going to fit anywhere and no one's going to like it, ha ha ha!
We've started work β I've done a lot of visuals and Damon's done a lot of music but we haven't figured out how they're going to fit together. I can't say much about it yet but it's sort of like a film, but not with one narrative story. There's many stories, told around a bigger story, set to music, and done in live action, animation, all different styles, well So I'm not sure how it'll pan out, or even if it will happen. But Damon's written around 70 songs for it, and I've got great plans for the visuals, but right now, at this moment, it's still just a really good idea.
