Recording debut album

From 1998 to 2000 Albarn recorded Gorillaz’ self-titled debut album at his newly opened Studio 13 in London as well as at Geejam Studios in Jamaica. The sessions resulted in the first Gorillaz release, the EP Tomorrow Comes Today , released on 27 November 2000. This EP consisted mostly of tracks which later appeared on the album, and it also included the band’s first music video for “Tomorrow Comes Today”, which introduced the virtual band members for the first time. With Gorillaz , Albarn explored genres he had not explored with Blur, such as hip-hop , dub and Latin music , a process he described as liberating: “One of the reasons I began Gorillaz is I had a lot of rhythms I never thought I could use with Blur. A lot of that stuff never really seemed to manifest itself in the music we made together as Blur.”