Gorillaz Announce Australian Listening Parties For New Album ‘The Mountain’

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Gorillaz’s new album, The Mountain, is arriving in late February.

Ahead of its release, the BRIT and Grammy-winning virtual band led by Blur vocalist Damon Albarn and animator Jamie Hewlett have announced global listening parties to take place in the week of the album’s release—and Australia and New Zealand won’t be missing out.

In fact, fans across the country will get to hear The Mountain before it’s released on Friday, 27 February, with listening parties happening from Monday, 23 February, onwards.

In Melbourne, fans can head to Soundmerch and Rocksteady Records. In Sydney, listening parties are happening at Impressed/Jam Record Bar and Red Eye Records. The fun continues in Adelaide (Clarity Records), Fremantle (Mills Records), Canberra (Landspeed Records), Launceston (Avenue Records), Geelong (Popcultcha), and Brisbane (Rocking Horse).

For New Zealand fans, the listening parties will take place in Auckland (Southbound), Dunedin (Relics), Wellington (Slowboat), and Christchurch (Pennylane).

While fans will get to hear the new album ahead of its release at the listening parties, they’ll also have the opportunity to score a limited edition, white label copy of The Mountain at participating stores.

You can find more information about your local record store’s participation in the listening parties via their websites or social media. The full list of participating record stores is below.

Last week, Gorillaz released a new single from The Mountain called Orange County featuring Bizarrap, Kara Jackson, and Anoushka Shanka, plus a companion track, The Hardest Part, featuring Tony Allen. Meanwhile, other tracks on the album will feature Sparks, IDLES, Johnny Marr, and many others.

You can pre-order/pre-save the album here.

Drummer Russel Hobbs said of the forthcoming album, “As space dust we are here forever, and that’s a mighty long time. This is a musical meditation infused with light. A journey of the soul, with beats…”

Gorillaz will take The Mountain on tour this year, beginning with massive dates across the UK and Ireland from March to June, including their first-ever headline stadium show at London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Saturday, 20 June 2026.