{"id":486423,"date":"2019-05-29T11:55:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T17:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=841566"},"modified":"2019-05-29T11:55:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T17:55:19","slug":"damon-albarns-africa-express-unleash-club-ready-new-song-become-the-tiger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/damon-albarns-africa-express-unleash-club-ready-new-song-become-the-tiger\/","title":{"rendered":"Damon Albarn\u2019s Africa Express Unleash Club-Ready New Song \u2018Become the Tiger\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/damon-albarn-africa.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/damon-albarn\/\"><span>Damon Albarn<\/span><\/a> <span>may have called off potential<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/gorillaz\/\"><span>Gorillaz<\/span><\/a> <span>projects for the foreseeable future, but he hasn\u2019t slowed down making music with his numerous other bands. The songwriter\u2019s latest venture is reviving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/africa-express\/\">Africa Express<\/a>, which facilitates collaborations between Western and African artists \u2014 and he showcases that cultural diversity in new single \u201cBecome the Tiger,\u201d featuring Sibot and Mr. Jukes.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The collaboration appears on the <span>the South African-based collective\u2019s upcoming<\/span> LP, <span><em>EGOLI<\/em>, out July 12th via their newly formed label Africa Express Records. The song previews the record\u2019s eclecticism, following the previously issued, downtempo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/damon-albarns-africa-express-preview-new-album-johannesburg-832733\/\">\u201cJohannesburg\u201d<\/a> with a club-ready, synth-heavy groove.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In addition to Albarn and company, <em>EGOLI<\/em> <span>will feature Gruff Rhys, Ghetts, Moonchild Sanelly and Yeah Yeah Yeahs\u2019 Nick Zinner, among many others. The album, which follows their March-issued <em>MOLO<\/em><\/span><span>&nbsp;EP, is available for<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/africa-express.lnk.to\/EGOLI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><span>pre-order<\/span><\/a> <span>on the Africa Express website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In recent months, Albarn has reunited with two of his other groups: In 2018, he teamed with dormant supergroup t<span>he Good, the Bad &amp; the Queen<\/span> for their second LP, 2018\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/damon-albarn-the-good-the-bad-the-queen-merrie-land-new-album-745004\/\"><em>Merrie Land<\/em><\/a><span>; and in March, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/blur-surprise-reunion-london-815661\/\">joined his former Blur bandmates onstage<\/a> for the first time in nearly four years during his annual Africa Express concert in London.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/damon-albarn-africa-express-new-song-become-the-tiger-841566\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damon Albarn may have called off potential Gorillaz projects for the foreseeable future, but he hasn\u2019t slowed down making music with his numerous other bands. The songwriter\u2019s latest venture is reviving Africa Express, which facilitates collaborations between Western and African artists \u2014 and he showcases that cultural diversity in new single \u201cBecome the Tiger,\u201d featuring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-486423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 03:13:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}