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Artist News
Horrors guest on new Gorillaz track
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 3 September 2009
The Horrors have revealed that they recently worked with Damon Albarn for a new track on the new Gorillaz album.
Bassist Rhys Webb told BBC 6 Music: “Damon got a copy of our album ‘Primary Colours’ really early, contacted us out completely out of the blue and told us how much he liked it. It was kind of a strange email saying, ‘Would you guys be able to come down to my studio at some point?’ We had no idea really what it was about but thought that would be great to go down there, have a chat, it would be nice to meet 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 and you’re album is one of the most exciting things I’ve heard in a long time. Would you be up for working on a track?”
He added: “Gorillaz have always been diverse and experimental and I think as a band moving forwards, that’s very much they way we approach music. He played us a lot of tracks he’d been working and musically and they were just in a really similar place to where we were at the moment – rhythmically and the instruments that were going through the sound – so it made perfect sense for us.We had such a good time working with him”.
He also said that Albarn had returned the favour by mixing a new song Horrors song, ‘Whole New Way’, which they hope to release as a single at some point in the near future.
