Now based at Plastic Beach, a massive Tracy Island–style HQ floating on a trash island at Point Nemo, Murdoc has taken full control — keeping 2D captive and guarded by a cyborg Noodle cloned from the original, while Russel remains missing. Not that Murdoc cares. “I like to think of myself as The Gorillaz,” he says. For their third album, the band paints an allegorical portrait of humanity — waste, destruction, consumerism, and failure.