The island itself bears a striking resemblance to a mushroom cloud from a detonated atomic bomb.In the video, it's revealed that Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett hired a team of miniature designers that created the "real-life" scaled replica of the island used in most of the videos and album art for the Plastic Beach album.
The DVD featured with the special edition version of the Plastic Beach album includes a short behind the scenes video.The island is left a smoldering ruin as the monster returns back underneath the ocean and the lighthouse sinks shortly after. Turning its attention to the main structure, the monster shoots several more lasers and the building is engulfed in an explosion.
As the band members look upon their former home, a large sea monster resembling a Kraken rises up from the ocean and severs the peninsula containing the lighthouse from the main island with laser beams. The island made its last appearance in the video for The Lost Chord. Speaking on the Singles Collection XFM radio show (November 27th, 2011) Murdoc reveals he had left Plastic Beach because the attack by the pirates "wrecked" it.Īt the end of The Valley of the Pagans music video, the band members crashed into the ocean in their Stylo car near the island through a inter-dimensional portal. Much like an iceberg, most of the island is submerged underwater, and closer to the structure's bottom is a large underwater area, where 2-D resides.Īccording to Murdoc, Plastic beach looks "almost idyllic" from far away, though as one draws closer, it becomes apparent that the island is just clustered trash. Murdoc claims to have purchased the island with the insurance money from Kong Studios and then painted the thing "bright pink", though it's really more of a pinkish brick color, after which he built his own playboy-like mansion atop of it.
Plastic Beach was created after various discarded items floated in the ocean and stuck to one another to conglomerate into one large landmass in the Pacific, held together by "a sticky gloop of oil and tar from a million of untold disasters".
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