{"id":2819,"date":"2026-02-28T21:57:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T21:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2819"},"modified":"2026-02-28T22:12:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T22:12:20","slug":"gorillaz-the-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2819","title":{"rendered":"gorillaz &#8211; the mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/folder-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/folder-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2820\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/folder-5.jpg 600w, http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/folder-5-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/folder-5-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br \/>a long time ago under the guise of a pseudo, &#8216;<strong>stumbo<\/strong>&#8216; (a deep cut reference to <strong>foetus<\/strong>), <br \/>i became embroiled into the world of <strong>gorillaz<\/strong>.<br \/>it was a mad wild time and a lot of fun.<br \/>to the point i nearly got fired over it.<br \/>subsequently, i have a lot of promo chaos (including a 10&#8243; &#8216;signed&#8217; single by the &#8216;band&#8217; where the signatures were all apparently done by jamie h !).<br \/>then the world changed,<br \/>following the release of the &#8216;<em>clint eastwood<\/em>&#8216; single, <br \/>the &#8216;band&#8217; became a huge thing and so my involvment was no longer of interest (sort of).<br \/>however, i have always loved the mix of damons love for genre clashes and of course the artwork of jamie h.<br \/>hence i have always felt an urge to check their albums out.<br \/>not going to lie, the last few albums have felt like random collections of tracks\/collaborations and have often left me cold.<br \/>yesterday they released a new album, &#8216;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the mountain<\/span>&#8216;.<br \/>within minutes of me pressing play this album feels and sounds dfferent.<br \/>album of the year already ?<br \/>quite possibly.<br \/><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">gorillaz vs stumbo more detail<\/span> : <a href=\"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/quest4murdoc\/murdoc\/MurdocsWinnebago.html\">here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a long time ago under the guise of a pseudo, &#8216;stumbo&#8216; (a deep cut reference to foetus), i became embroiled into the world of gorillaz.it was a mad wild time and a lot of fun.to the point i nearly got fired over it.subsequently, i have a lot of promo chaos (including a 10&#8243; &#8216;signed&#8217; single [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2819"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2826,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions\/2826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}