Gorillaz have just dropped their music video for Tranz, their first ever live performance video and a single from their latest album The Now Now, and it's psychedelic as hell.
It starts off simple enough with the band playing on a white floating platform, but steadily gets more and more warped, more and more creepy. Horror film excerpts flash in the background, the band's bodies start to swim before our eyes, there's creepy bats and Frankenstein's monster and skulls. Finally, the band end up turning into... well, we won't ruin it for you.
And as amazing as the clip is, it made us realise that Gorillaz have always been ahead of the curve with their music videos. Pushing the boundaries comes naturally to the world's most successful virtual act (and yes, they own the Guinness World Title for it) and their uniquely recognisable animation style and strong narrative elements has and will always stand the test of time.
Here, we're revisiting some of Gorillaz' most iconic music videos, from the classics like Feel Good Inc. to some of their lesser known clips like Rock The House.
Rock The House
Released over 8 years now, Rock The House has a distinct video game-feel with his white backgrounds, oversized billiard balls and... cheerleading monkeys? We still don't understand those after all this time.
DARE
It's DARE! This slightly morbid clip from 2005 features a gigantic singing, wired up robot head in Noodle's room and while it's a little weird, Noodle shaking her booty along at 1:51 is a total mood. The clip is one of the few Gorillaz clips that also primarily features Noodle, with the others only briefly cameo-ing. There's heaps of nods to classic horror movies too - The Ring at the end, The Brain That Wouldn't Die, Cannibal Holocaust and The Birds.
read more: everything we know about gorillaz' latest album, the now now
Clint Eastwood
Who could forget the clip for Clint Eastwood? The Gorillaz gang battle zombies in this clip, as they perform in a graveyard with the ghost of Del and a heap of zombie apes. One of our favourite scenes are the zombie apes doing the Michael Jackson Thriller dance but Noodle kicking the apes in the face is pretty rad too. This clip's another one with plenty of horror movie homages to movies like Dawn Of The Dead and Resident Evil.
Humility
It's one of their newest videos at only three months old, but we already think it's gonna be a classic. There's something so soothing about those blue skies and those Santa Monica-Venice Beach palm trees PLUS it features Jack Black as a guitar-playing busker. This clip's pretty much entirely live action apart from 2-D skating his way through the beach.
Listen to Gorillaz' latest album, The Now Now, below.
