“I don’t know if changed the process of making songs, I think it changed the subject matter,” says Kabaka. Nevertheless, work continued across all available forms of communication and the music kept coming.

The series launched with “Momentary Bliss,” a linkup with the insurrectionary voices of slowthai and Slaves, in January 2020 before lockdown changed the cadence of releases to every few weeks. Songs were forged in intensive bursts, as quickly as ideas and collaborators could be brought together.

You are a bulletin-a responder in the moment, not a reporter of the moment.” “It’s more interesting working in this episodic format because it’s easier to respond to a moment than trying to remember your response to the moment. “That’s the definition of contemporary, isn’t it?” Remi Kabaka Jr.-producer, drummer, percussionist, and Gorillaz’s third member alongside Damon Albarn, and Jamie Hewlett-tells Apple Music. Instead, the Song Machine project was conceived as a series of monthly stand-alone singles that would be created in the moment, without the constraints or concepts that come with shaping an album. Gorillaz began making their seventh studio album with the specific intention of not making an album.

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