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Gorillaz
Gorillaz · 2001 · Track 7
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Duración1:38
ÁlbumGorillaz
Año2001
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The story behind
The Gorillaz song “Punk” has a rather unusual origin story. The story goes that it came about when 2-D, one of the band’s characters, couldn’t find the keys to Kong Studios. His frustration caught Murdoc’s attention, who saw in that moment of anger the spark for a new composition. Thus, 2-D’s frustration became the foundation of this song. With a concise runtime of one minute and thirty-seven seconds, “Punk” captures that raw, unfiltered energy.
This song is part of Gorillaz’s self-titled debut album, released in the United Kingdom on March 26, 2001, by Parlophone. The album not only reached number three on the British music charts but also sold around seven million copies worldwide—a success that led the band to be recognized in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s most successful virtual band. Throughout this album, Gorillaz explored a wide range of styles, blending elements of trip-hop, rap rock, art rock, hip-hop, dub, reggae, Latin music, psychedelic music, and, of course, punk rock—a genre that “Punk” honors in both name and spirit.
The idea for Gorillaz was born in 1998, the brainchild of Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett. They conceived a band composed of four fictional members—2-D, Noodle, Murdoc Niccals, and Russel Hobbs—whose narrative unfolds through animated videos and short films, building a universe of its own. In the studio, the recording of *Punk* featured Jason Cox and Tom Girling as engineers. Production was handled by Jason Cox, Dan the Automator, Tom Girling, and Gorillaz themselves—a collaboration that helped shape the band’s distinctive sound. Albarn is the only permanent musician in real life, although Remi Kabaka Jr., who provided the voice for Russel Hobbs for years, officially joined the band in 2019 after collaborating since 2016, as documented in *Gorillaz: Reject False Icons*.