Gorillaz, the self-titled debut, actually played like a prolonged experiment, a test for Albarn to see how far he could push his own boundaries, and a test for his audience to see what exactly would be accepted as legitimate music and what would be dismissed as noise-collage drivel. Demon Days is part two of what will undoubtedly be an ongoing romp into the absurd, except that Albarn will rarely be chastized for such obvious self-indulgence after all, he’s just writing parts for his characters, right?Įven given all of the above, however, there is a major difference between Albarn’s first attempt at avant-pop-via-cartoon and his second. It’s why he can have an entire album of vocal tracks without ever feeling constrained by the necessity of writing anything with a “deeper meaning”. It’s why he can pen a volcanic little fantasy and get Dennis Hopper to read it on one of the deeper tracks on that same album. It’s why he can crib the entire verse melody of U2’s “Staring at the Sun” and use it for the chorus on his album’s lead single. Taken to a higher level, what 2D’s public display of the goods proves is that Albarn can do whatever the hell he damn well pleases as Gorillaz, while not necessarily taking responsibility for any of it. It’s the ultimate display of “I don’t give a fuck”, and I have this feeling that Albarn was just a little bit giddy that Gorillaz uber-illustrator Jamie Hewlett could draw Albarn’s closest illustrated counterpart letting it all hang out. There’s a pic in the Demon Days press pack - freely available on the website, if you can find it - that features lead cartoon vocalist 2D with his (pardon the term) wang visibly hanging right out of his pants. All right, so eight-year-old guitarist Noodle is kinda bubbly and cute, but none of Gorillaz’ members could possibly be called anything close to mentally stable (if there is such a thing for a cartoon) - even Noodle is fighting her past as a member of a junior fighting militia. Gorillaz are, as you likely know, a four-piece cartoon band made up of some of the more unsavory characters ever to come out of the dark depths of the animated underworld and unleash their music upon an unsuspecting public. Then appears the Demon Days song, were it's an amazing finale for the album, telling you that besides all the sadness and crude true, there is hope and light to it, making a "happy ending" for the story.Here’s why Gorillaz are very likely the best thing to ever happen to Damon Albarn: For example, there is one song, Dare, that is very "happy" compared to other work in Demon Days, but that's because fits perfectly the message (improve your self auto esteem, to cheer). But this con is recovered by the union of all the songs, that are like one hour story, telling you about loneliness, hedonism, self esteem, war and so many more negative things that happens in the world.
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All the first half is full of amazing tunes, and the second, while presenting excellent songs, there are some more "normal" ones. But it's not the unique masterpiece in the album.
is the only song all agree it's, at least, cool, and personally I think it's because it is the best song in the album that is so good, that even being weird, almost everyone like it. Their music is not for everyone for being unique and weird, but soon as you enter "inside" the songs, it's a complete masterpiece as good as the self-titled album and Plastic Beach. Their music is not for everyone for being unique and weird, but soon as you enter "inside" the songs, it's a Gorillaz.
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