8.1
Avg Score
13
Opinions
#998
All Time
17
Tracks
“Gorillaz compiles a bunch of damn good singles to make a damn good album.”
“The Now Now (2018) was one of those Gorillaz albums that dispensed with the hip hop-led collaborations that have often defined this band of ink and flesh. Guests are in full effect, though, on its follow-up: what’s billed as Season One of the band’s Song Machine concept, compiling the tracks Gorillaz have released monthly via their YouTube channel since January, plus extra helpings. Everything th”
“Gorillaz remain an idiosyncratic staple of modern music”
“The animated troupe’s latest project is as sundry, vibrant, playful, and superficial as you’d expect”
“Damon Albarn and Co. go further into borderless pop with the help of Beck, Elton John, and others”
“Gorillaz began with Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett sat watching MTV. Annoyed at the lack of substance from the manufactured acts of the time, they decided to manufacture their own as a comment on that artifice, or something. Twenty years on, the legacy of 2-D, Murdoc, Noodle and Russel Hobbs has gone far beyond ribbing the Backstreet Boys. Luring us in with the colour and edge of Saturday morning ”
