To celebrate their 25th anniversary, Gorillaz released a video on 29 January 2025 titled Nostalgiaz , featuring clips from their music videos set to “Pirate’s Progress” from Plastic Beach . In March, during an interview with the French magazine Les Inrockuptibles , Albarn said he was finishing a new Gorillaz album. On 8 August 2025 the band launched an exhibition at London’s Copper Box called “House of Kong”, which ran until 3 September. This included a set of daily live performances where they performed their first three albums and a fourth “mystery” show; their self-titled debut album on 29 August, Demon Days on 30 August, and Plastic Beach on 2 September. On 26 August the band were added to the video game Fortnite Festival as part of the game’s tenth season. For the closing “mystery” show of the “House of Kong” exhibition on 3 September, the band revealed the new album in full, playing 15 songs from the album with no encores. The performance had multiple guests, including Sparks , Yasiin Bey , Omar Souleyman , Asha Bhosle and Johnny Marr , but the title of the album was not disclosed.
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