Thursday, March 4, 2010

Gorillaz - Plastic Beach review

Okay, first of all, since this is my first review, please forgive me for whatever mistakes I might do here.

This album has been confusing, not just the first time I listened to it. EVERY time I listen to it.
Now the single has been absolutely perfect. The fact that they chose Stylo to be the first single is one of the best choices for a single the last 20 years. But it kind of makes it harder to view the other songs like I should after listenng to the single.

So, first off, I'm gonna review the single.
Like I said, it's seriously awesome, the whole song has this bassline going on that makes you just want to listen to it over and over, even if you don't like the rest of the song, it's just so fucking awesome.
The video is even better. Bruce Willis in ANY music video is a win in my book.
The lyrics, seriously, I haven't really pay'd attention to, the bassline is just so fucking awesome, and the power of the vocals themselves, just fucking awesome.
Now the rest of the album, not AS great, but still pretty nteresting. Interesting doesn't alway mean good.
Now, their self-titled debut was good, really good actually. Demon Days was even better. This album is misleading to say the least. There's more hip hop, which isn't always a bad thing if you do it correctly. After a few listens though, it's not a bad thing at all, this album is based on collaboration, there's only 3 Gorillaz only songs on the whole album.
Now, the whole gorillaz project has been a hit and miss kind of thing, it seems that Damon Albarn has been experimenting with the fans nerves from the first Gorillaz album on, but this is the most experimental thing he has done.
The last two albums were very experimental, but it all sort of stayed in the trip-hop universe so to say. This new album is something different. It's almost all just hip-hop, but it has a lot of trip-hop beats, wich makes you wonder what kind of an album it actually is, but after a few listens you really understand that it's just Gorillaz going crazy, and that's what I like about this album.
White Flag has some weird orchestral shit going on, after a few listens, it's like 4 monkeys going crazy on different instruments while a rapper puts lyrics on it, and that's actually whats going in most of the songs, it's interesting, sometimes frustrating, but most certainly worth to check out.

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