Gorillaz release first new music in 6 years - an anti-Donald Trump anthem featuring Benjamin Clementine

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Over the course of 2016, Damon Albarn’s virtual band, Gorillaz, released various teaser images without actually releasing any music.

However, thanks to Donald Trump’s upcoming inauguration, the band has dropped a brand new song - their collaboration with James Murphy and Andre 3000, "Do Ya Thing.”

Titled “Hallelujah Money,” the song features Benjamin Clementine on main vocals, crooning about building walls and love being the root of all evil.

Alongside the song, the band’s ‘bassist’, Murdock, wrote: In these dark times, we all need someone to look up to. Me. That’s why I’m giving you this new Gorillaz song, a lightning bolt of truth in a black night. You’re welcome. Now piss on! The new album’s not gonna write itself.”

Last year, the first footage of Damon Albarn back in the studio emerged online via Jamie Hewlett’s Instagram account, with snippets of new info hitting the internet ever since.

Speaking about album number five previously, Albarn said the new record would be “really fast”, adding “it's got quite a lot of energy.”

In his last update on the upcoming record, Hewlett described how he was 'shutting himself away' to work on the band's next steps. “I’m working on it at the moment, and it’s going very well. I’m very excited. I don’t want to say too much about it, but I’m at that phase of experimentation.”

According to Hewlett, the record will be out later this year, with the collaborators not wanting to rush the recording process because it’s sound “really f*cking special”.