GORILLAZ Share New Single ‘God of Lying’ feat. IDLES

Gorillaz have unveiled ‘God of Lying’, the latest signal flare from their upcoming ninth studio album, “The Mountain”, arriving March 20th, 2026. The track features Idles frontman Joe Talbot in a slow-burning, spoken-word trance, a vocal presence that feels less like singing and more like a sermon delivered from inside a fever dream.

‘God of Lying’ leans into a strange, weightless place: woozy melodies that bend around a reggae pulse, chased by a haze of dread. The song was built across London, Devon, and Mumbai, with bansuri lines by Ajay Prasanna and percussion from Viraj Acharya, adding a ritualistic, humid undertow. It’s a piece that feels like it was assembled in transit, half memory, half hallucination.

Gorillaz’ member 2D shared a cryptic reflection alongside the release:
“Can I tell you a secret? Doubt is very tiring but questioning things is really good for you.”

It’s the kind of gentle riddle the band has always excelled at, a hand offered and withdrawn at the same time.

“The Mountain” itself is shaping up to be one of the band’s most far-travelled works. Recorded primarily at Studio 13 in London, its footprints extend to Mumbai, New Delhi, Rajasthan, Varanasi, Ashgabat, Damascus, Los Angeles, Miami, and New York. The album’s geography maps directly onto its collaborators: IDLES, Kara Jackson, Yasiin Bey, Johnny Marr, Black Thought, Anoushka Shankar, Omar Souleyman, and, in spectral presence, Bobby Womack, Dave “Trugoy the Dove” Jolicoeur, Dennis Hopper, Mark E. Smith, Proof, and Tony Allen.

Gorillaz are opening a portal to a place where the living and the dead, the melodic and the dissonant, the beautiful and the disorienting, all stand on the same ridgeline.