You can check the track out below.īaby Queen is the third and final single from their upcoming album, following New Gold with Tame Impala and Cracker Island (the song) with Thundercat. Baby Queen is also featured in FIFA 2023. The song itself has a more laidback, dreamy sound, with lyrics about a meeting princess from Thailand and watching her grow up in dreams. The new song was released alongside an aesthetic Gorillaz visual. This album will be the band’s first release since 2021 ‘Meanwhile’ EP. And as our trust erodes in the pillars of web culture we’ve long taken for granted, there’s opportunity to re-embrace the fun, offbeat experiences that defined our medium in the first place.Gorillaz have released their latest single Baby Queen, from their upcoming eighth studio album Cracker Island, set to be released Friday, 24 February, via Parlophone. For one thing, our tools are so much better now: A Kong Studios in 2022 could be higher-resolution, more performant, more responsive and accessible. While most websites should be straightforward in their presentation (no one should have to look hard for a store’s hours, a restaurant’s menu or a map to the hospital), surely at least a few would benefit from greater immersion and a bit of surprise? Sketches of responsive navigation concepts from a past Cloud Four project involving immersive digital spaces.īut I think there’s hope. As of this writing, the official Gorillaz site is a Shopify storefront.Īnd that’s a shame.
Gorillaz’ original design team disbanded in 2010, the same year that Ethan Marcotte published Responsive Web Design and Steve Jobs published Thoughts on Flash. Like a lot of the most inventive early web experiments, Kong Studios relied on proprietary plugins like Flash and Shockwave. Surely, this was where the web as a medium was headed! This wasn’t just a document to read, it was a location to visit. The lobby of Kong Studios, as it appeared in late 2006. If you were curious enough to venture beyond the typical discography, tour dates and promotional content, you might uncover easter eggs, animations, outtakes, B-sides or even a game.
Instead of navigating a menu, you explored various rooms and corridors. When I was starting out as a web designer, few experiences inspired me as much as Gorillaz’ official website in the early-to-mid aughts, Kong Studios.Īt a time when most websites were long scrolls of text or cramped two-dimensional rectangles, Kong Studios was an interactive recreation of the band’s home and studio space.
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