A man of many bands—most relevantly Gorillaz—Damon Albarn announced last week that he signed to Transgressive Records. Now, he’s announcing a new album The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows and shared the title track. It’s his first solo album since 2014’s Everyday Robots, and it was inspired by Iceland’s vast landscapes.
“I took some of these realtime, extreme elemental experiences [of Iceland] and then tried to develop more formal pop songs with that as my source,” he said of the album. “I wanted to see where that would take me. Sometimes it took me down to Uruguay and Montevideo. Other times I went to Iran, Iceland or Devon. With travel being curtailed, it was kind of nice to be able to make a record that put me strangely in those places for a moment or two.”
The new album is out November 12, and you can pre-order it here. Hear the title track below.
