Electric Shock

Electric Shock is a unreleased song from the album Plastic Beach that was featured on the unofficial B-side album, Sea-Sides. It dates back from the Carousel sessions, and across Phase 3 has had two different versions, but due to never being complete was later turned into other different tracks for Plastic Beach.

The song consists of synthesizers and electronic style brass. The lines that were featured in the song "That's Electric" were later incorporated into the Plastic Beach song Rhinestone Eyes, and other parts of it bear resemblance to Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach and Strobelite.

On its demo stage, Electric Shock was first shown live at a session with Murdoc and Damon Albarn on the 14th of January 2009. The beginning of the song would later evolve into a bonus track of Plastic Beach, "Three Hearts, Seven Seas, Twelve Moons". A different and later version of the song was included on a mix by Damon and features the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble.

This song was performed only once at a London show on October 22nd, 2008, by Damon Albarn alongside the group Africa Express, two years before the Plastic Beach album's release.

Trivia

 * Electric Shock is one of Gorillaz' most known unreleased track from Phase 3 and in general.
 * In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Posdnuos of De La Soul said that the group had provided vocals on two songs for the album, "Electric Shock" and "Sloped Tropics", but on the finished album, De La Soul is only featured on one song on the album, "Superfast Jellyfish".
 * The song was also said to have featured Mos Def at some point.