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The Horrors Collaborate With Albarn On New Gorillaz Album

• 1st Sep 2009

Daman Albarn has collaborated with The Horrors on the forthcoming Gorillaz album, which is due for release in 2010.

In an interview with BBC 6Music, Horrors bassist Rhys Webb described how the collaboration came about.

“He got a copy of it really early, contacted us 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 it would be great to go down there, have a chat, it would be nice to meet him.

“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.

“He played us a lot of tracks he’d been working on and, musically, they were just in a really similar place to where we were at the moment – rhythmically and the instruments that we were going through the sound – so it made perfect sense for us.”

Webb also revealed that Daman Albarn had mixed The Horrors next single, called ‘Whole New Way’.