Plastic Beach is considered to be Phase 3 of the cartoon band’s story, which you can read about in full here. My interpretation of the island is that it’s the collection of all the plastic and stuff in the ocean, and it’s all clean now ‘cause it’s all collected into an island. It’s everything that goes on on the island, Plastic Beach.

It is natural for the Gorillaz to make political statements in their music, or as they put it, “social realism parallel with love.” Gorillaz co-creator Damon Albarn’s perception of the album title, as stated in the Plastic Beach half-hour documentary, began somewhere very plain and simple:ĭoesn’t have to be any more narrative than that.

The album’s worldly outlook, though primarily concerned with the environment, extends to those responsible for the problem – the plastic-producing human race. Plastic Beach is about the accumulation of plastic in an extremely broad sense it’s about the impact that anything inherently disposable and artificial has on the world.

List of all gorillaz albums