The Mountain is Gorillaz’ ninth studio album. The album is a collection of 15 new tracks featuring artists and collaborators including: Ajay Prasanna, Anoushka Shankar, Asha Bhosle, Asha Puthli, Bizarrap, Black Thought, Gruff Rhys, Idles, Jalen Ngonda, Johnny Marr, Kara Jackson, Omar Souleyman, Paul Simonon, Sparks, Trueno, and Yasiin Bey; as well as the voices of Bobby Womack, Dave Jolicoeur, Dennis Hopper, Mark E. Smith, Proof, and Tony Allen.
The Mountain, produced by Gorillaz, James Ford, Samuel Egglenton, Remi Kabaka Jr., and Bizarrap (Orange County), was recorded in London, Devon, Miami, Jaipur, Mumbai, New Delhi, and Rishikesh; and features artists performing in five languages: Arabic, English, Hindi, Spanish, and Yoruba.
The artwork for The Mountain showcases Jamie Hewlett’s distinctive yet ever-evolving style, illustrating the world of Gorillaz with increasing detail and breathtaking complexity in a series of hand-drawn illustrations. Murdoc Niccals, Russel Hobbs, 2D, and Noodle are in India, where our heroes are immersed in the rhythms of mystical music as they make their way through the mountainous landscape of this thing called life.
Tracklist
- The Mountain
- The Moon Cave
- The Happy Dictator
- The Hardest Thing
- Orange County
- The God Of Lying
- The Empty Dream Machine
- The Manifesto
- The Plastic Guru
- Delirium
- Damascus
- The Shadowy Light
- Casablanca
- The Sweet Prince
- The Sad God
