ALBUM OF THE WEEK

Gorillaz The Now Now Out Friday ★★★★★

Damon Albarn has a habit of coughing out low-key Gorillaz albums in between the big-production kind, and just as 2011’s The Fall followed 2010’s

Plastic Beach, so The Now Now follows last year’s Humanz. If that record was heavy on the star guests and the apocalyptic hip hop and a bit light on Albarn and his melodic touch, The Now

Now switches the balance, focusing on agreeably bleary, shimmering electro-pop full of Damon’s spaced-out croon, with titles - Idaho, Hollywood,

Kansas, Lake Zurich - that suggest a dazed, ruminative tour travelogue.