{"product_id":"gorillaz-plastic-beach","title":"Gorillaz' Plastic Beach","description":"\u003cp\u003eGorillaz were, from the very beginning, as much conceptual art as they were a musical group. A collaboration between Albarn and visual artist Jamie Hewlett, the project was conceived as a \"virtual band\" that could comment on the empty and manufactured nature of popular culture. They quickly expanded into videos, books, and games which detailed a complex and surreal mythology and engaged with a variety of social and political issues. But \u003ci\u003ePlastic Beach\u003c\/i\u003e took this to a new level.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Damon Albarn's encounter with plastic pollution at Hallsands Beach inspired the album's meditations on the Anthropocene - an epoch marked by significant human impact on Earth's geology and ecosystems. The book positions \u003ci\u003ePlastic Beach\u003c\/i\u003e as a concept album that reflects on the Anthropocene, combining commentary on environmental degradation and consumer culture with attempts to imagine a future beyond the rapacity and destructiveness of this era.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Gorillaz' Plastic Beach","offer_id":46969721389253,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/979-8-7651-3285-2.jpg?v=1789794996","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/gorillaz-plastic-beach","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}