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Virtual music band Gorillaz is currently working on their new yet-to-be-titled album which is scheduled to get released sometime later in 2016. The upcoming new album will be a follow up to Gorillaz's widely-acclaimed 2010 effort "Plastic Beach" and the band's first new release in the last five years.

According to Consequence of Sound, the band is collaborating with Chicago rapper Vic Mensa for their new album.

Producer and frequent Gorillaz collaborator Remi Kabaka recently shared a picture of Mensa in the studio on Instagram. The picture had the Gorillaz official Instagram handle tagged in the caption.

Reddit user JordanPowers95 claimed that Mensa was initially tagged in the pic and later removed. This fuels the speculation that the band might want to keep the collaboration under wraps for now.

There were also rumors that Noel Gallagher was interested in collaborating with Gorillaz for their new album.

In an interview with The Daily Star, when Gallagher was asked about the possibility of a collaboration, he said Damon Albarn is "making a new Gorillaz album and he's got my number, so he's only got to ask. There is talk of doing something but I'm not sure what it is."

 "You can bet your life the minute I finish this tour he'll go out on his. I mean trying to get the two of us in the same room would be a fucking miracle. But I'm certainly open to the idea, for sure," he added, according to NME.

Although, Gorillaz haven't yet announced a release date for their upcoming new album, it is expected that the album will be rolled out in 2016.

Band member Jamie Hewlett teased the album's release saying "2016 is going to be Gorillaz all year."

"We're doing Gorillaz next year," Hewlett said, according to NME. "Damon [Albarn] has started making some music around all his other projects. I'm working on it at the moment and 2016 is going to be Gorillaz all year."

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