Features Disc of the day
Gorillaz
Demon Days
(Parlophone, 2005)
Where Blur's Damon Albarn proved a cartoon band needn't make frivolous music.
A collaboration with the cult cartoonist Jamie Hewlett (of Tank Girl infamy) and producer Dan Nakamura conceived as an outlet for Damon Albarn's dabblings in the non-Blur world of hip-hop and kitchen-sink R&B, Gorillaz sold 6 million copies of their 2001 debut to immediately become something more than a hobby band. On Demon Days, Albarn's generic cross-pollination has bedded in nicely - allowing (on All Alone) a blubbery, bogling beat, a typically eccentric Roots Manuva rap and Martina Topley-Bird's angel pipes to co-exist in perfect symbiosis. The result is an aural phantasmagoria - funky, playful but sinister like the best children's stories - soundtracking Albarn's intensely melancholy vision of a crumbling, exploited world, where zombified "kids with guns" hold sway from North Hulme to Sierra Leone and dead-eyed multinationals rape an ancient culture in a lysergic parable brilliantly narrated by Dennis Hopper. Seriously astonishing.
Danny Eccleston
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 02/12/2007
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Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030 (Tommy Boy, 2000)
The Good, The Bad & The Queen - The Good, The Bad & The Queen (Parlophone, 2007)
The Specials - More Specials (2 Tone, 1980)
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