India, March 2 -- With their much awaited ninth album the Gorillaz are more contemplative than they've ever been - 'The Mountain' takes listeners on an audio-visual spiritual journey through the eyes and ears of Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett past India, death and the afterlife.

You can almost sense a deep sorrow within the hopeful sound of Gorillaz newest album, it rests in the lingering notes, in the high notes of Ajay Prasanna's melodic bansuri, or the sanctimonious twine of Anoushka Shankar's sitar. The sun washed warmness of the album's music and art, almost bursting with the vibrance of Indian culture and colour, is as haphazard as it looks - ranging from high energy Arabic hip-hop to alt-pop. The jolts of highs and lows may seem s...