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Plastic Beach

Plastic Beach
The cover of the third Gorillaz album "Plastic Beach". An artificial island rests on the ocean during a sunset. Apart from the base, it is mostly mushroom-shaped. It contains a few palm trees and small buildings. At the very top is a large white building with many windows. Other objects in and around the island include a ship, a buoy, a lighthouse and a crate. The view shows the opposite side of the island from the "Experience Edition" cover. In the lower left corner are the uppercase words "Gorillaz Plastic Beach" on separate rows. They are white and in a thick, wavy font.
Studio album by Gorillaz
Released 3 March 2010 (2010-03-03)
Recorded June 2008 – November 2009
Studio
Genre
Length 56:46
Label
Producer Gorillaz
Gorillaz chronology
D-Sides
(2007)		 Plastic Beach
(2010)		 The Fall
(2010)
Damon Albarn chronology
All the People: Blur Live at Hyde Park
(2009)		 Plastic Beach
(2010)		 The Fall
(2011)
Singles from Plastic Beach
  1. "Stylo"
    Released: 26 January 2010
  2. "Superfast Jellyfish"
    Released: 9 March 2010
  3. "On Melancholy Hill"
    Released: 26 July 2010
  4. "Rhinestone Eyes"
    Released: 6 September 2010
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 77/100
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 3.5/5 stars
The A.V. Club B+
Entertainment Weekly B
The Guardian 4/5 stars
The Independent 4/5 stars
NME 7/10
Pitchfork 8.5/10
Q 5/5 stars
Rolling Stone 3.5/5 stars
Spin 7/10

Plastic Beach is the third studio album by British virtual band Gorillaz, released on 3 March 2010 by Parlophone and Virgin Records. Conceived from an unfinished Gorillaz project called Carousel, the album was recorded from June 2008 to November 2009 and produced primarily by group co-creator Damon Albarn. It features guest appearances by several artists, including Snoop Dogg, Gruff Rhys, De La Soul, Bobby Womack, Mos Def, Lou Reed, Mick Jones, Mark E. Smith, Paul Simonon, Bashy, Kano, Little Dragon and the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble.

Plastic Beach debuted at number two on the UK Albums Chart, selling 74,432 copies in its first week. In the United States, it debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 112,000 copies, and it also charted within the top ten in several other countries. Plastic Beach received mostly positive reviews and was named one of 2010's ten best albums by several critics.

Creators of Gorillaz, musician Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett, began working on a new Gorillaz project in November 2007 called Carousel, which evolved into Plastic Beach, the group's third studio album. In the November 2007 issue of Q, when asked what his top priority for 2008 was, Damon Albarn replied "Well, I'm doing the next Gorillaz thing, but it won't be called Gorillaz." In the February 2008 Gorillaz-Unofficial interview, Jamie Hewlett elaborated on this, saying "I think the idea behind it is that it's like how The Who presented their movies – Tommy and Quadrophenia and so on. Those were presented as by 'The Who' even though none of the members of the band were in the movies. I don't think anyone from The Who was in Quadrophenia. But it's the same people working on it, that's the principle." In a July 2008 interview with The Observer he also said, "Gorillaz now to us is not like four animated characters any more — it's more like an organisation of people doing new projects. [...] That's my ideal model — Gorillaz is a group of people who gave you this, and now want to give you new stuff."


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