As if the prospect of an imminent new album from Gorillaz wasn\u2019t exciting enough, the band has released a teaser for an accompanying short film \u2014 and it\u2019s something that looks like it\u2019s come straight from the vault of animation history.<\/p>\n
The 30-second teaser for The Mountain, The Moon Cave and the Sad God debuted on the Gorillaz YouTube channel February 20, a week ahead of the film\u2019s full release\u2026 which also happens to be the same day that The Mountain, the next full Gorillaz album, drops. With a hand-drawn animation style that hews closer to the Hanna-Barbera classics of the 1960s than the recent glossy aesthetic of recent albums and videos \u2014 a sense emphasized by the film grain and dramatic, scratchy voiceover\u2014 it\u2019s a break from what fans might be expecting from the virtual band led by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett as they prepare for their ninth album.<\/p>\n
Take a look at the first teaser for The Mountain, The Moon Cave, and the Sad God below:<\/p>\n
The eight-minute The Mountain, The Moon Cave and the Sad God will debut on the Gorillaz YouTube channel<\/a> at 8 AM Pacific, 11 AM Eastern, on February 27, following an exclusive premiere February 26 at Alamo Drafthouse theaters<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Mountain, the album, will be released February 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As if the prospect of an imminent new album from Gorillaz wasn\u2019t exciting enough, the band has released…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[163778,18,117,20033,19,17,161457,337],"class_list":{"0":"post-347897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-alamo-drafthouse","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-film-tv","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-jamie-hewlett","15":"tag-music"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116105191477736821","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}