GORILLAZ
CRACKER ISLAND
PARLOPHONE
★★★★
Now matching the output of Damon Albarn’s other band, Cracker Island is Gorillaz’ eighth album in their 22-year career. It’s also Albarn’s seventh album since Blur’s last LP, The Magic Whip, in 2015. None have been terrible, but it’s also 13 years since an undisputed classic in Plastic Beach, while last year’s solo effort The Nearer The Mountain, More Pure The Stream Flows was Albarn at his most noodling, introspective and divisive.