{"id":803645,"date":"2020-01-30T12:57:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T19:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=945697"},"modified":"2020-01-30T12:57:37","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T19:57:37","slug":"gorillaz-debut-song-machine-series-with-momentary-bliss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/gorillaz-debut-song-machine-series-with-momentary-bliss\/","title":{"rendered":"Gorillaz Debut \u2018Song Machine\u2019 Series With \u2018Momentary Bliss\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/gorillaz-slowthai.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/gorillaz\/\" id=\"auto-tag_gorillaz\" data-tag=\"gorillaz\">Gorillaz<\/a> have launched their music and video series, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/gorillaz-new-music-video-series-song-machine-details-944519\/\">\u201cSong Machine,\u201d<\/a> with a jittery new tune, \u201cMomentary Bliss,\u201d featuring British MC Slowthai and the punk duo Slaves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The song finds Gorillaz and Slaves crafting a tune that builds deftly from woozy synth pop into a rambunctious bit of super melodic pop-punk (tinged, even, with a bit of ska). Slowthai handles the majority of the vocals on the song with compelling dexterity, riding the pockets within the scrappy guitar riffs like a skilled MC, then bellowing over them like a seasoned hardcore singer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cMomentary Bliss\u201d arrived with a video that captures the recording of the track, with Damon Albarn, Slowthai, Slaves and more working diligently alongside the animated members of Gorillaz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cMomentary Bliss\u201d marks Gorillaz\u2019s first new music since their 2018 album, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-gorillazs-the-now-now-is-a-focused-call-for-unity-in-hard-times-666812\/\"><i>The Now Now<\/i><\/a>. The \u201cSong Machine\u201d series will find the band moving outside the constraints of a<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>typical album cycle, with the animated outfit teaming with an an array of collaborators and dropping new installments and music throughout the year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/gorillaz-slowthai-slaves-momentary-bliss-song-machine-945697\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gorillaz have launched their music and video series, \u201cSong Machine,\u201d with a jittery new tune, \u201cMomentary Bliss,\u201d featuring British MC Slowthai and the punk duo Slaves. The song finds Gorillaz and Slaves crafting a tune that builds deftly from woozy synth pop into a rambunctious bit of super melodic pop-punk (tinged, even, with a bit [&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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-24 04:43:37","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}