Damon Albarn has enlisted the Shoreditch coffin dodgers to work on a song for the forthcoming Gorillaz album.
The Horrors have been enlisted by Damon Albarn to contribute to the forthcoming Gorillaz album after he heard their "exciting" new record.
"He got a copy of [Primary Colours] really early, contacted us completely out of the blue and told us how much he liked it," bassist Rhys Webb told BBC 6 Music. "We went down to the studio and he said, 'We're working on the new album and we've not collaborated with a guitar band before. Your album is one of the most exciting things I've heard in a long time. Would you be up for working on a track?'"
Gorillaz have not released an album since 2005's Demon Days, though Albarn and animator Jamie Hewlett have worked together on the project Monkey: Journey to the West. Albarn has confirmed that his attention is focused on Gorillaz now that the Blur reunion gigs are over, while earlier this summer rap group De La Soul described recording vocals for the album.
"[Albarn] played us a lot of tracks he'd been working [on]," Webb said. "They were in a really similar place to where we were at the moment."
The bands got on so well that mid-way through his tour with Blur, Albarn offered to remix the Horrors' next single, Whole New Way. Webb emphasised Blur's influence on his band. "They've always been diverse and experimental," he said. "[Blur] were the first band I went to see."
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