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Gorillaz to release free album on Christmas day
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 10 December 2010
Those who have been visiting the Gorillaz website recently will know that the animated band have been giving away digital treats via an online advent calendar this month. Now it has been revealed that the big present on Christmas Day will be a whole new album written by Damon Albarn on an iPad. Which may or may not be a good thing.
Gorillaz artist Jamie Hewlett told Australian newspaper Perth Now: “At the moment we’ve got an advent calendar on our website and there is a daily door that opens to reveal a gift. On Christmas Eve a video for one of the new songs from the iPad album will be released. Then, on Christmas Day fans get the whole album downloaded to their computer for free as a gift”.
Albarn added: “I wanted to make sure that it came out [just] at the end of the tour because I don’t want anyone to think I’d tampered with it. I literally made it on the road in America over a month. I didn’t write it before, I didn’t prepare it. I just did it day by day as a kind of diary of my experience in America. If I left it until the New Year to release it then the cynics out there would say ‘Oh well, it’s been tampered with’, but if I put it out now they’d know that I haven’t done anything because I’ve been on tour ever since”.