According to Damon Albarn, the next Gorillaz album will likely be released in 2016, but he is not sure about the future of Blur.
From a recent interview with the Sydney Morning Herald the paper reported, "Albarn is currently writing a West End theatre musical adaptation of a children's book, is in the process of reactivating Gorillaz for a 2016 release and is trying to find time to record a new The Good, the Bad & The Queen album, which he says is fully written."
But the Blur frontman is not too sure about the prospects of his first band, which has not released an album in 11 years.
"I would imagine there's some kind of future," he said. "But at the moment there's no time for the future — only the present. Who knows? I'm reluctant to say anything, because if I do, it just gets taken out of context and then I'm accused of being a wind-up."
Right now, Albarn is focused on his recent solo release, Everyday Robots, which included a reference to heroin use.
"The press picked up on my one oblique reference to heroin and made it into a f---ing great big headline, but that's the British press for you," Albarn said. "That's part of the price of living in this country. They were very personal songs, 100 percent. At the time, it was a bit painful and I felt a little bit exposed, but I never have to talk about that ever again now. I had to take a bit of stick for it, and I did."
The 46-year-old is also pumped about the future of music, a stance that directly contradicts old rock greats such as Gene Simmons and Joe Perry.
"We are in the midst of an extraordinary transition — culturally, spiritually and physically — and I suppose that's where the melancholy subject matter comes from," he said. "We're not really aware of what's happening to us yet. There's something really crazy and insane about the whole thing and it's too early on."
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