Fresh off a five-night run at the Apollo in Harlem, the Gorillaz are retiring.

Kinda.

Sorta.

Maybe.

At least for a few weeks.

"At the moment we're like, that's probably the last album we make," Albarn said on stage at the Apollo last week about the group's multiplatinum Demon Days. "I don't think we could make a better album than Demon Days really, for what this is and how it works."

But almost immediately, Albarn pulled back a bit, saying, "Last night we thought, 'Surely this isn't the end,' and I don't know we're saying it's the end again, but it's quite a hip-hop thing to retire and come back, you know."

"We've been taking notes and we're going to do it hip-hop style, like Jay-Z," he later told MTV News.

But Albarn said that even if the Gorillaz do go away for a while, the band will likely reconvene one more time in the mode of its multinight runs in Manchester and NYC, with the bevy of guests from Demon Days joining the animated quartet on stage.

"There's a possibility of doing these shows one more time, in Las Vegas," he said. "But we're not sure when. I love the idea of Gorillaz--on their third-ever [set of gigs]--playing Vegas. And, of course, it'll be big and all bells and whistles. And then that's it."

As for the long-planned Gorillaz world tour, that's on the back burner, the Blur frontman said.

But there will likely be a video game, in addition to the mobile games developed earlier this year based on the band's animated characters, and possibly a feature film on the horizon, to be financed by Albarn and Gorillaz cocreator Jamie Hewlett.