Gorillaz' Noodle and St. Vincent on animating a modernist sound in which the unconscious mind speaks through guitar

Noodle & St. Vincent
(Image credit: Gorillaz / Aaron Farley)

It's fair to say that Gorillaz, everyone’s favorite virtual rock-hip-hop-electronic-synth-pop outfit, are far from your average band.

And yet, even by their unconventional standards, Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez, the newest release from the British collective (led in real life by co-creators Damon Albarn of Blur fame and artist Jamie Hewlett) is a wild outing. 

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Richard Bienstock

Rich is the co-author of the best-selling Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion. He is also a recording and performing musician, and a former editor of Guitar World magazine and executive editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine. He has authored several additional books, among them Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, the companion to the documentary of the same name.