Rumoured artists to be on the album include Massive Attack and De La Soul. The latter is not a surprise considering their collaboration on previous albums, but the former definitely intrigues me., especially as Gorillaz dabbled with trip-hop on Tomorrow Comes Today with great success.

Also, instagram post which today showed a retrospective of the band, finishing with....

A collaboration with Massive Attack might sound something like this?

Been listening to Plastic Beach a lot recently. Incredible album with so many different styles. Can not wait

Demon Days and Plastic Beach are fantastic albums, probably the best things Damon has done imo, definitely in the case of Demon Days. I have a soft spot for the debut album as well although not as strong song wise aside from a few choice cuts.

Interesting, looks like a general theme perhaps for the new album.

COuld be some kind of intro like welcome to the world of the plastic beach was for the one before? It does not stand well on it own, but maybe it will make sense with the rest of the album.

Felt like they released this for effect because it's on the eve of the inauguration. I think that was a mistake imo.

Feels like they're trying too hard to make a point.

Shocker.

Still, almost certainly not a single. Hopefully some kind of interlude.

Absolutely awful - it would help if there was an actual tune in this, seems really desperate rather than inspired. I'm getting pretty fed up with artists jumping on the anti-Trump bandwagon. I despise Trump, wishing only the very worst for him and his cohorts in the administration. But being cynical, these artists are merely doing it for their own self gain. There's nothing original or rebellious about it - we all think the same about him and they aren't providing any enlightenment into these cynical times. We saw this last week with U2 delaying their new album because they wanted it to 'fit in with the times' or some other banal reasoning with words to that effect. I was fine with the artists who preempted the disaster of Trump last year in their music, because that felt like an ominous foreboding and seemed to be in touch with the world around them. And as it turned out, the music's premonitions turned out to be true.

But in the popularity stakes, if it isn't hiring cheap plastic pop producers to retain 'relevance' by making kiddy friendly pop music, it is cynically jumping on a political bandwagon to denounce a right wing nutjob to prove their moral credentials. The best 'protest' music at this time would be from the artists who don't just merely identify the problems with individuals at the top, but recognise the destruction of their actions at a ground level. If you want to have a real go at the likes of Trump, by all means have a go at the perpetrators (and, ironically, Trump is the most extreme example of this) but prove your sincerity and admit the severe problems with liberal market economies and the destruction it has caused at the ground level - the cracks in society, the destruction of community and the disparate and isolated elements within it. The real art is the stuff that provides an empathetic take on all of this, rather than the mere populist approach.

Awful, it's not even a proper song.

The characters are in there as winks and nods, but yes, you'd expect more of them.

I've listened a few more times and I've made up my mind now: very lackluster and uninspired. And it's all the more frustrating when you remember that Gorillaz can do politics right. Listen to Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head off Demon Days, the song that Hallelujah Money was clearly trying to ape. That song was an incredibly effective dramatic reading of a children's story that warned of the consequences of exploiting natural resources. In contrast, Hallelujah Money is a kinda freaky song that clearly tries to reprise the scary vibes of its predecessor, but instead it's more show than substance, and it makes its message so ridiculously obvious that it dulls its impact on the listener.

Why have you let us down, Damon? We know you can do better than this!!