On 18 January 2014, the Warner Music Store was updated to include Damon Albarn's new album and its name was revealed – Everyday Robots, which is also the name of the first single.
[3] "Photographs (You Are Taking Now)" contains a sample of writer Timothy Leary from the audiobook The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
Russell was the executive producer for Gil Scott-Heron's 2010 comeback album "I'm New Here", in which multiple samples were used on the album, Bobby Womack's "The Bravest Man in the Universe", features a sample of Gil Scott-Heron as well.
"[6] The gig also saw the first exclusive plays of songs such as "Photographs (You Are Taking Now)", "The Selfish Giant" and "Mr. Tembo", Albarn also played "Tomorrow Comes Today" from Gorillaz eponymous debut album and The Good, the Bad & the Queen single "Kingdom of Doom" as well as "El Mañana" from Demon Days and the Blur B-Side "All Your Life".
[7] In his track-by-track review for NME Matthew Horton said: ""This is a precious opportunity," declares a TV voice before resounding bass with almost techno depth takes us from the "patent courts of nature" to "the church of John Coltrane".
But the melancholy starts to give way to John Barry-esque strings – and suddenly our hero's sipping Martinis in a tux.