The album’s lead single “There is No Other Time” is a collaboration with British production duo Gorgon City , and was premiered on Zane Lowe ‘s BBC Radio 1 show on 3 February 2014, then becoming Radio 1 ‘s Track Of The Day the following day. Along with “Children Of…
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In February 2014, the band released the fourth single, “Sugar”.
The band performed on Saturday Night Live on 25 January 2014.
On 3 January 2014, “Bows & Arrows” premiered on Rolling Stone magazine’s website.
Education, Education, Education & War was toured across Europe and the Americas throughout 2014 and 2015.
At the 2014 Juno Awards , Reflektor won Album of the Year and Alternative Album of the Year.
During 2014, Elliott Williams left the band for a period of touring to work on his own music project YdotOdotU, supporting the 1975 . The band continued to tour with musician Nicholas Willes.
Hewlett described the moment when he and Albarn agreed to continue Gorillaz at an afterparty after one of Albarn’s solo shows in 2014: “We’d had a bit to drink, and he said, ‘Do you want to do another one?’ And I said, ‘Do you?’ and he said, ‘Do you?’ And…
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In January 2014, Will Farquarson said in an interview with Billboard magazine that the band had already started to work on its second album in between tour dates.
Two months later he reported that he had “been writing quite a lot of songs on the road for Gorillaz”.