The Gods We Can Touch was released in January 2022 and received critical acclaim. It achieved significant commercial success in the Greater China region, reaching 350 million streams; it also reached number one in Norway for the first time since her debut album and secured her first top-10 entry in…
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To promote The Gods We Can Touch , Aurora embarked on an international concert tour , extending her presence across Europe, Latin America and Southeast Asia, with debut concerts in Lithuania, Romania, Taiwan, Thailand, Colombia, Indonesia, and Peru. She also performed a closing headline set at the Øya Festival in…
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The tour was set to end on December 18, 2021, with the band’s final performance in Toronto.
This began on November 20 in Buffalo, New York, following the easing of COVID-19 restrictions.
The band released a new single, “Billy Goodbye”, on 2 November 2021.
In November 2021 Albarn announced that an animated film based on the band was being produced at Netflix
On 21 October 2021, the band announced through social media that Paul Thomson had departed the band, with Glasgow-based drummer Audrey Tait joining as his replacement, as well as confirming that studio recordings had been undertaken with Tait. The announcement was accompanied by a statement from Thomson and a photograph…
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In October 2021, NHL on Sportsnet introduced new theme music composed by the band, titled “Never Stop”.
Tait’s debut performance with the band had taken place several weeks before the announcement, at the Balmain fashion show in Paris on 29 September.
On 17 September 2021, Albarn revealed that he had recorded a new Gorillaz song with Bad Bunny whilst in Jamaica, and, at the time, said it would be the first single for a new album, influenced by Latin America, released in 2022. The concept for the album would later change,…
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