Five songs to hear this week (March 24-30)

Damon Albarn’s cartoon heroes Gorillaz are back and feeling generous, with a secret London show tonight and not one but four new songs now streaming ahead of their fifth album next month. There’s a 360-degree animated video for Saturn Barz (Spirit House) on YouTube, and other new songs feature Vince Staples, DRAM and Jehnny Beth.

Chuck Berry is the latest legend to head off to the great gig in the sky. At least he had some new music in the can. Big Boys, online now, is the first song from his first album since 1979, coming in June. Reassuringly it sounds the same as ever.

Craig Finn, the frontman of New York rock band The Hold Steady, releases his third solo album, We All Want the Same Things, today. He’s still telling poetic stories in song, especially on God in Chicago, a spoken word piano ballad which has a video on YouTube now.

Southampton band Creeper combine a love for the Californian punk of Bad Religion with the theatrical rock and roll of Meat Loaf to fun ends on their debut album, Eternity, In Your Arms. It’s out today, including the bombastic latest single, Black Rain.

Just after she released a new mixtape, Charli XCX is here again as the voice of the new single from Guernsey producer Mura Masa. It’s called 1 Night and unites gentle marimba with heavy bass rumbles to great effect.