


Gorillaz provides examples of the following tropes:


#Momentz live visuals plus
Song Machine: Season One Strange Timez (2020) note Album including all tracks for season one of Song Machine plus several bonus ones.In May 2020, it was announced that Gorillaz would release a new graphic novel in October 2020 called Gorillaz ALMANAC featuring comic strips, new and old artwork, games, puzzles, and special guest appearances from various Gorillaz collaborators, with a physical copy of Song Machine: Season One Strange Timez included with each issue.
#Momentz live visuals series
In January 2020, the band announced a new project called Song Machine, revealing that they would be moving away from the traditional album format, instead shifting to a series of periodically-released singles involving an ever-revolving roster of collaborators, with the song "Momentary Bliss" serving as its first "episode". The entire storyline of the band breaks down into "phases" generally surrounding the rollout of each album it currently consists of five completed phases, with the second season of the sixth phase currently underway. While the band's backstory was initially presented through various interviews and promotional material, it was eventually all pieced together through their 2006 autobiography, Rise of the Ogre. To prove that musical groups could be executed in a more interdependent fashion, they created fictional backstories and put much emphasis on the animation and cartoons. The virtual band was created as a commentary on MTV often putting more of an emphasis on the musician than the music itself, having a discrepancy between the visuals and the music. While their earlier work was often categorized as trip hop, even that discounted the overt influences they took from alternative rock, hip-hop, dub, electronic music and pop, which have only given way to further experimentation in their later years.
