On April 10th 2014, Albarn revealed in an interview with Q Magazine that the album was still in the process of being worked on.
In 2014, at the same time Albarn revealed he had plans to record Gorillaz' fifth studio album, Albarn revealed that a he had finished writing new album by The Good The Bad & The Queen, being all but recorded. On May 21st 2007, Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim would exclusively release a previously unheard acoustic version of The Good The Bad and The Queen’s The Bunting Song through the free Adult Swim compilation album Warm & Scratchy. An alternate version of the song, called "Last Song" was then recorded by Faithfull and released on Before the Poison in 2005. Green Fields was originally written for the singer Marianne Faithfull, who Albarn had previously collaborated with on the song Kissin’ Time. Green Fields would later be released in April and would make its debut at No. Kingdom of Doom would later be released on Januand become the band’s first single to chart on the Top 20. It was broadcasted at the launch of Myspace’s new feature The List and watched exclusively by a specifically selected 300 fans. The next month, on December 12th 2006, The Good The Bad and The Queen would perform at their second gig in Wilton's Music Hall in East London. In a November 2006 interview with Uncut, Albarn and Simonon revealed the album's track listing for the first time.
Four days later, the band released their debut album's first single ‘Herculean’. The band then appeared in the BBC's music festival Electric Proms at The Roundhouse in Camden on October 26th, 2006. However, on July 28th, 2006, NME revealed that Albarn had actually formed a new supergroup with Paul Simonon, Tony Allen, Simon Tong, with the band’s album being produced by Danger Mouse. In 2006, there were reports by the press that Damon Albarn was working on his first solo album.
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