Some records arrive with a concept so odd that the music almost becomes secondary to the argument surrounding it. The debut album from Gorillaz was exactly that kind of record. Released on 26 March 2001, it was the work of Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett, built around four animated characters with fictional backstories and press shots containing no actual humans. People either got it immediately or they didn’t get it at all, and a fair number of them still haven’t made their minds up. That ongoing argument is, in its own way, a testament to the fact that the record has never quite settled into easy…
