# Gorillaz' Plastic Beach

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- Book: [Gorillaz' Plastic Beach](https://www.bookquiver.com/ihor-junyk/gorillaz-plastic-beach) ([Gorillaz' Plastic Beach.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ihor-junyk/gorillaz-plastic-beach.md))
- Authors: [Ihor Junyk](https://www.bookquiver.com/ihor-junyk)
- Publisher: Bloomsbury
- ISBN: 979-87-6513-285-2
- Pages: 152
- Published: 2027-02-04
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## 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.