Demon Days - Gorillaz

Ever since the eponymous first album “Gorillaz” was released in 2002, the conceptual cartoon band has defied the odds to retain a huge popularity both in the U.S. and at home. Ostensibly, the band is made up of 2D, Murdoc Nicolls, Noodle and Russel Hobbs but the reality is that Damon Albarn of Blur drives the post-modern 80’s electro dance-floor fillers with an apparent freedom to mix and match music across a whole range of cultural borders. With additional production from the similarly cartoon-named “Dangermouse”, “Demon Days” is a heavily produced piece of work resulting in this, the band’s latest album release. The initial album was a big hit and Demon Days ...  Read the complete review

Damon Albarn is a brilliant musician as the writer and singer of Blur he has really shown himself to be a creative and brilliant writen and singer. The Gorrilaz is a side project created with his friend the artist, Jamie Hewitt, in essence its a cartoon band, so we only ever see the cartoon band, but the real singers change regularly with Albarn bringing in a wide variety of talents to contribute to Gorrilaz albums. Most band side projects are small intimate affairs which have little commercial success however the Gorrilaz debut album sold over 4m copies worldwide and was lauded as ground breaking and different. While the first album was produced by Dan ...  Read the complete review

The Gorillaz is a band based all around removing the sort of celebrity culture built around music stars, the Gorillaz are instead depicted as cartoon characters and Demon Days sees these cutesy cartoons turn dark. If anyone is aware of the real identity of Gorillaz you will know its Damon Albarn, Blur frontman, The Good, The Bad and The Queen etc, plus a few select guests and this is no bad thing. I am a big fan of Damon Albarn, such an adaptable artist who continues to surprise me in his musical ventures. Many fans will have heard their debut: Gorillaz, in comparison Albarn has done some growing up... The Intro does cannot really be reviewed as a proper track but ...  Read the complete review

Gorillaz started as Damon Albarn’s animated side-project, although nowadays they must his primary concern. Made up of 2D, Noodle, Murdoch and Russel, I find the whole premise a bit gimmicky really, and when listening to the album you soon forget about these crazy characters and it begins to sound like Damon Albarn plus special guests. Demon Days appealed to me as soon as I heard Feel Good Inc. and Dare, but then when the fantastic new single Dirty Harry was released, I felt the need to go out and borrow it (I’m too cheap to actually buy CDs). When my favourite newspaper The Telegraph also voted it their number 1 album of the year this gave me an added ...  Read the complete review

Being a huge fan of Gorillaz for five years now, this album never ceases to entertain me. There is such a wide variety of songs on here, you could probably give each one a mood. The first impression this album gave me is "These songs aren't catchy, I'll doubt I'll listen to this often". After a second time of hearing it through, you are able to understand the complex rhythm of each song. From the bouncy, quick beat of the popular "Dare" to the awesome bass and addictive vibe of the successful "Feel Good Inc" to the unusualness of "Don't get lost in heaven." Apart from the intro the album includes a ...  Read the complete review