Gorillaz - Plastic Beach (CD/DVD)
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Artist: GorillazEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2010-03-09
Music Label: Virgin Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Orchestral Intro (featuring Sinfonia ViVA)
- Welcome To The World Of The Plastic Beach (feat. Snoop Dogg & Hypnotic Brass Ensemble)
- White Flag (feat. Kano, Bashy & The National Orchestra For Arabic Music)
- Rhinestone Eyes
- Stylo (feat. Bobby Womack & Mos Def)
- Superfast Jellyfish (feat. Gruff Rhys & De La Soul)
- Empire Ants (feat. Little Dragon)
- Glitter Freeze (feat. Mark E Smith)
- Some Kind Of Nature (feat. Lou Reed)
- On Melancholy Hill
- Broken
- Sweepstakes (feat. Mos Def & Hypnotic Brass Ensemble)
- Plastic Beach (feat. Mick Jones & Paul Simonon)
- To Binge (feat. Little Dragon)
- Cloud Of Unknowing (feat. Bobby Womack and Sinfonia ViVA)
- Pirate Jet
- 45-minute "making of" documentary (DVD)
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Free Music Review: A New Side
Hit: 5 Stars
This is an article I wrote for my school's newspaper about Plastic Beach:
After a five year hiatus, the world's most famous animated quartet composed of 2D, Russel, Murdoc, and Noodle, otherwise known as Gorillaz, are back with their highly-anticipated album Plastic Beach. Though the album is set to be released on March 8, early last week the band gave NPR and a handful of media outlets permission to let fans listen to it before it hits shelves.
Damon Albarn, Gorillaz `creator' and best known as the front man of Blur and The Good, the Bad, and the Queen, arrived back strong as a songwriter, producer, and lead singer. With Plastic Beach Albarn has recruited an arsenal of featured artists such as Lou Reed, Mike Jones of The Clash, Snoop Dogg, De La Soul, among others. The first single, Stylo, which was leaked by band member Murdoc on the bands website was the first wacky gesture as he cited "A leak! A leak! Plastic Beach has sprung a leak! One of those Russian pirates has put a bullet hole in my island! My single's leaked! STYLO!" The single features rap star Mos Def and R&B singer Bobby Womback, with Albarn taking the back seat vocally, in a sleek and funky roll-your-windows-down tune.
A beautiful two-minute orchestral trailer takes you to the fictional beach as oceanic clips hover over the symphony. The listeners "arrival" at the beach happens with none other than the swanky sounds of Snoop Dogg as he greets the listener with "Kids, gather around/Yeah, I need your focus/I know the world seems so hopeless/it's like a wonderland," and as a final salute before delving in, "Welcome to the world of the Plastic Beach".
Perhaps the characters of the band wanted to show playfulness and ease above all in this album. Albarn takes cues from Arabian influences as well as Caribbean ones. "Rhinestone Eyes" is the most familiar Gorillaz sound with Albarn's smooth voice gliding over rhythmic tones and a M.I.A.-esque choral sound bite, that gives you the ache to dance as much as their past hit "19-2000" as he chants "I'm a scary gargoyle on a tower/that you made with plastic powder/Your rhinestone eyes are like factories far away."
If you are only familiar with radio hits such as "Feel Good Inc." and "D.A.R.E.,"his may not be the record for you. While that contagious rhythm that remains constant in most songs is present, this is unexplored territory; their personal dark side of the moon. Each song is unique in its own and is contrived in the least, which means that this unfamiliarity is very much an acquired taste.
Above all, what Albarn and the gang have accomplished with this album is refreshingly joyous, and they have managed to reach unprecedented levels of playfulness and tranquility not always heard in their music. Take a break. Relax. Let the music consume you, and surely you'll be at the Plastic Beach in no time.
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