Plastic Beach

Steven Weill

“Gorillaz took a turn for the conceptual for their third full length with an album focused on environmentalist themes, presenting the titular Plastic Beach as a "secret floating island deep in the South Pacific, made up of the detritus, debris, and washed-up remnants of humanity" — inspired by marine pollution such as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Somehow it ends up infinitely more whimsical and”