Gorillaz - Demon Days
jamie on May 16th, 2005
Holy crap! This is bad- and Bad means BAD, not good. There are three tracks on this album worth listening to, and they are really great tracks. Unfortunately, due to those aweful iTunes commercials, you’re already sick of one of them. My favorite is guested by Roots Manuva, who I think is to blame for this track’s greatness. Manuva’s album Awfully Deep is anythign but awful, and given his input, I think producer Danger Mouse may have had some direction to move in. The last, Dirty Harry evokes the sound and feel of the pseudo-group’s earlier hit Clint Eastwood in more than name, and has been rolling around my iPod for a couple of months now. The rest of the album is project leader Damon Albarn trying to blend genres. Sometimes genre blending/bending is good, but other times, one should just know better. It’s like trying to put pickles on your peanut butter and bannana sandwich- it just don’t work. To me, the rest of the disc sounds as if a high school kid was playing around with protools, and churned out some random noise-experimental music crap. Get the singles, download All Alone ft. Roots Manuva from Napster or Rhapsody, or if you absolutely have no place else, iTunes- and skip the rest.
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