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- Summary: The latest release from Gorillaz features guest appearances by Amaan Ali Bangash, Ayaan Ali Bangash, Yasiin Bey, Asha Bhosle, Bizarrap, Black Thought, IDLES, Kara Jackson, Johnny Marr, Ajay Prasanna, Gruff Rhys, Anoushka Shankar, Paul Simonon, Omar Souleyman, Sparks, and Trueno.
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- Record Label: Kong
- Genre(s): Alternative, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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- Positive: 22 out of 24
- Mixed: 2 out of 24
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- Apr 10, 2026The Mountain is Gorillaz’s best album since 2010’s Plastic Beach. It’s ambitious, kaleidoscopic, thematically cohesive and packed with the kind of bruised melodies that cement the Blur frontman’s status as the bard of middle-aged melancholia.
- Feb 23, 2026Its 15 tracks are filled with cheery major-key singalongs, sitar-soaked synth-pop bangers and whimsical waltzes that serve as ecstatic celebrations of life, rebirth and reinvention. [Mar 2026, p.20]
- Feb 27, 2026The Mountain is by some distance the most ambitious Gorillaz album yet, a multilayered musical tour de force that brings meaningful strands of hope to the deaths, chaos and delirium.
- Feb 23, 2026The Mountain is a rich, rewarding take on living with and after loss, brimming with feeling, character and vibrant pop purpose. [Feb 2026, p.100]
- Feb 27, 2026‘The Mountain’ as a full-bodied world-building affair; arguably their most rich and complete since ‘Plastic Beach’.
- Feb 25, 2026Indian instrumentation adds a new tool to Damon’s sonic arsenal. In the wrong hands, the results could be gimmicky but here the Gorillaz formula never waivers. .... The decision to mine the Eastern take on death - a much more optimistic alternative to our Western one - frequently yields joyful results.
- Feb 26, 2026The multicultural and multilingual mosaic they construct never goes deep enough, often struggling to match the ecstatic build-and-release and bittersweet existential odysseys of Gorillaz’s earlier work. Mountains aren’t quite moved here, only slightly prodded.
