For anyone frustrated that Blur never quite managed their White Album, look no further. Gorillaz are a far cry from Damon’s Britpop band Blur, and cover more electronic music and hip hop as well as world music. The scope and depth of Plastic Beach is staggering. But it’s when Albarn takes centre stage that Plastic Beach really thrills: Empire Ants is a trickling ballad to rank alongside Blur’s best, and On Melancholy Hill is a hazy pop gem with the sugary 80s sparkle of Strawberry Switchblade or early Lightning Seeds. Smith is a spectral, menacing presence on Glitter Freeze. Lou Reed’s fragile turn on Some Kind of Nature is the kind of New York piano charmer he does best, and Mark E. The celebrity guests all step up to the raised bar. skipping chants, first single Stylo (also brilliant) manages to merge Bobby Womack’s soulful croon and Mos Def’s raps into something resembling a Gary Numan or Grace Jones track from 1983, and Superfast Jellyfish (particularly brilliant) finds Super Furry Animals’ Gruff Rhys delivering an OutKast-meets-The Rentals elastic pop bouncer in keeping with his colourful cartoon surroundings, right down to the trumpets that sound like a sad clown at the end. The action is controlled by an iPhone-looking widget at. 'The action-adventure, is set on a post-apocalyptic beach and loaded with crude humor, allusions to Fantasy Island, ambient dub sounds, and Gorillaz own special brand of cyberpunk sprinkled over every pixel. Rhinestone Eyes (brilliant) is all 80s synths and M.I.A. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach is another point and click adventure game from Gorillaz. It’s the first of a plethora of jaw-dropping surprises on what might possibly be the least predictable album ever made.įrom here Plastic Beach simply flies. White Flag opens as the world’s only Shinto Bollywood track before Kano and Bashy trade anti-war, anti-crime and anti-religion rhymes over trashy Casio beats. Then, the first handbrake turn in what will be a head-spinning ride.
You’d be forgiven for assuming Gorillaz had found their place as Damon’s token hip hop side project. After a meandering, seagull-strewn string intro, Snoop Dogg phones in his contribution to lounge rap number Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach. In the game, you, an unnamed visitor of the island, are tasked with assisting. Plastic Beach (2010), The Fall (2011), Humanz (2017), The Now Now (2018) and Song Machine. The Plastic Beach web game was available through from 2010-2014. Not that you’d think that from the first couple of tracks. Long before online concerts and festivals became a thing. Only behind such a distracting smokescreen could Damon Albarn get away with conducting a project as sprawling, daring, innovative, surprising, muddled and magnificent as Plastic Beach: not just one of the best records of 2010, but a release to stand alongside the greatest Albarn’s ever been involved with and a new benchmark for collaborative music as a whole. Listen, though, and it makes more sense than ever. If you want to listen for yourself, sign up on the official Gorillaz website and you can hear the album for free.The Plastic Beach back story – colourful fluff about cyborg bassists, kidnapped singers and islands made of trash – might make you think the whole cartoon band conceit is wearing a bit thin.
“If I left it until the New Year to release it, then the cynics out there would say, ‘Oh well, it’s been tampered with.’ But if I put it out now, they’d know that I haven’t done anything because I’ve been on tour ever since.” Gorillaz are back in 2010 2 new albums 1.Plastic Beach 2.Stylo Plastic Beach is out on the 8th of March.
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“I literally made it on the road in America over a month,” he said to Billboard. These links will guide you to a website were you can download these songs For more Gorillaz songs click here Posted by Blu Mutant at 12:10 No comments.
As for Plastic Beach, i dont think there is a way to access it. The closest you can get are the DVDs, as they contain kong studios as well as games and wallpapers from phases 1 & 2. He made the album entirely on his iOS device over his 32 day tour with the group. They were deleted (unless they were secretly saved) when the website updated for this phase. In their recent interview with Billboard, Damon Albarn dished on how he created the album and which apps he used, including Speak It!, SoundyThingie, Mugician, Funx Box Drum Machine, Gliss, AmpliTube and Xenon Groove Synthesizer. Follow you’re a huge fan of the virtual band, you’ve probably heard the Gorillaz’s latest album The Fall, which was released on Christmas day.
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