The Good, the Bad & the Queen's New Album/Single Out On 11/16

Roxas · Oct 18, 2018

So I assume the pic isn't allowed here do to it being a scan from UK's Uncut magazine, but according to them the follow up to 2007's self-titled "The Good, the Bad & the Queen", will come out on 11/16, or at least a single, and it's called Merrie Land. You can find the picture on reddit or google though.
EDIT: Mike Smith, Damon's keyboard player for every band he's ever been on just posted the same picture on his instagram, so it's not a rumor anymore.

EDIT2: We now have an Amazon link! So it's 100% legit and this is the album's title!

https://www.amazon.com/Merrie-Land-...r=8-6&keywords=the+good+the+bad+and+the+queen

Don't know about the name but it lines up since Damon said that the album was done and waiting for him to finish the Gorillaz tour to be released (the tour's last date is on October 24th).

For those of you who don't know what The Good, the Bad & the Queen is, it's a group consisting of Damon Albarn (Gorillaz, Blur) in vocals/piano, Paul Simonon (The Clash) on bass, Simon Tong (The Verve) on guitar and Tony Allen on drums, it's a super british-melancholic album, I'll leave you with one of the tracks just in case:

BLEEN · Oct 18, 2018

Fuck yeah. Dude is prolific as hell. Can't wait.
*waits idly for leak*

Also, here's that song you posted for US members:

Yours is region-locked.

DanGo · Oct 18, 2018

YES!

This has been such a long time coming. I'm psyched.

Joyful · Oct 18, 2018

Love their first album ,hyped

Disco · Oct 18, 2018

oh shit, I hadn't been following this news at all so this is a big surprise. hyped. first album is probably my favorite Albarn project tbh even over Gorillaz and Blur stuff

Roxas · Oct 18, 2018

Confirmed to be the album's title, we now have an amazon link!:
https://www.amazon.com/Merrie-Land-...r=8-6&keywords=the+good+the+bad+and+the+queen

Can a Mod edit the title to remove the "/Single" part? Now that we know it's the album's title

5taquitos · Oct 18, 2018

I feel like Damon must be creating music literally every waking moment.

Roxas · Oct 19, 2018

We have our first review, from mojo (again, magazine scans), 4/5 stars:

"Lady Boston ... is up there with the most evocative attempts by British pop to interpret its locality: Penny Lane, Waterloo Sunset, Ghost Town, This Is England, Blur's This Is A Low."

Blader · Oct 19, 2018

I didn't even hear of this band until this year or last year I think, but that first album is really good. Looking forward to this.

5taquitos said:
I feel like Damon must be creating music literally every waking moment.

His output is insane. Two Gorillaz albums + two tours + this, all in less than two years, is just ridiculous.

Mary Celeste · Oct 19, 2018

can't wait for this. Roxas can you throw the mojo scan my way?

Menome · Oct 19, 2018

Had no idea there was ever going to be a second album. Still play the first one fairly regularly, so I'm looking forward to this. Plus it comes out the day after payday for me, so no chance of being out of spending money by the time the release date rolls around.

5taquitos · Oct 19, 2018

Blader said:
His output is insane. Two Gorillaz albums + two tours + this, all in less than two years, is just ridiculous.

Aren't there rumored to be dozens of unreleased tracks from the last Gorillaz album as well? I think he might be a robot.

Jakke_Koala · Oct 19, 2018

Fuck yeah!!!!, First album was great!! Saw them live the year it came out. Great show.
Is it still the same line-up?

heavy liquid · Oct 19, 2018

YES! It's been so long. Damon must be like Prince was - just constantly thinking, writing and performing music.

Blader · Oct 19, 2018

5taquitos said:
Aren't there rumored to be dozens of unreleased tracks from the last Gorillaz album as well? I think he might be a robot.

Probably. He's released 50 tracks from the Humanz sessions alone. And seemingly has another 200 in the vault from the Plastic Beach sessions!

Mary Celeste · Oct 19, 2018

this album is produced by Tony Visconti btw

heavy liquid · Oct 19, 2018

Blader said:
Probably. He's released 50 tracks from the Humanz sessions alone. And seemingly has another 200 in the vault from the Plastic Beach sessions!

I don't know about Plastic Beach but aren't a most of those Humanz tracks just remixes and alt versions?

Roxas · Oct 19, 2018

hughesta said:
can't wait for this. Roxas can you throw the mojo scan my way?

I will certainly not do that when I get 'em, a friend over at a blur forum sent me that quote, magazine's hitting the UK stands as we speak.

heavy liquid said:
I don't know about Plastic Beach but aren't a most of those Humanz tracks just remixes and alt versions?

Some of the Humanz tracks that are on the super-special vinyl edition are versions of songs sung by other artists (Busted and Blue, a spanish version of She's my Collar), but there's a few instrumental songs that are new and one sung by Damon called Duetz. The Plastic Beach tracks are lots, some of those done, sung, with guest appearances, it's a huge thing.

Roxas · Oct 21, 2018

DP, but they're playing on Jools Holland on October 30th

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bqqxlx

Roxas · Oct 23, 2018

Annd it's out!

They're playing 5 dates on London in december, you can pre-order the album now, comes in a normal version and a limited version with a book: https://ada.lnk.to/merrieland

Mary Celeste · Oct 23, 2018

song is good, can't wait to get home and give it a more studious listen. Demon Dayz was tops, by the way!

Mary Celeste · Nov 16, 2018

bumping because the album's out now, and it's absolutely incredible. one of Damon's very best.

Kevers · Nov 16, 2018

Glad to hear, loved the first album and didn't think we'd ever get another.

charlieonhere · Nov 16, 2018

Listened to the whole thing, but now I've just got The Poison Tree on repeat. Such a good song

hwalker84 · Nov 16, 2018

Glad I saw this before the plane took off. Downloaded for offline listening.

Roxas · Nov 16, 2018

Ribbons and The Poison Tree are instant classics, no question

Minky · Nov 16, 2018

Only halfway through so far but this is awesome stuff.

Green Tentacle · Nov 16, 2018

Oh shit, I had no idea there was a new album coming out. First one had some great tracks.

Also, Tony Allen didn't get parentheses in the OP to explain who he is, but people should know that the guy is a legend and a pioneer of afrobeat music.

Porco Rosso · Nov 16, 2018

Oh shit - I had no idea this was out today! Listening immediately!

Mary Celeste · Nov 17, 2018

Lady Boston is quickly becoming my favorite track Damon's ever made

Smylie · Nov 28, 2018

I prefer the first TGTBTQ album over this one, but I love The Great Fire so much.