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For a project that could easily have been little more than Damon Albarn Remakes 'Ghost Town' 15 Times (With More Rapping & Cartoons), this is a follow-up that proves Gorillaz, weirdly, has legs- not that the four-year break hurt any. But also like the debut, Demon Days is better than it has any right to be, featuring singles stronger than anything released under the Blur banner since, you know, that 'Woo-hoo' song. Like the Gorillaz's self-titled debut, Demon Days goes the way of most auteur projects, its oversize idea load making for a trip equal parts peak and valley. Coyly hiding behind Jamie Hewlett's thick-inked pop caricatures and a phalanx of guest stars, Gorillaz allows Albarn to practice self-indulgence under heavy personality camouflage- though never so heavy that there's any question as to who's really pulling the strings. (Did anyone really expect an edgy street-cred Banana Splits to be worth discussing four years into its discography?) Rather than falling flat, Gorillaz have strangely become a therapeutic and clever way for Albarn to subvert the usual egolympics associated with a solo project.

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Tremendous.Fortunately, Gorillaz provides Albarn an outlet to vent his taste for sci-fi kitsch, and satiate his urge to break free from rock with guitars- and it's a surprisingly successful outlet, at that. It's a triumph for all concerned and should rightfully end the year as being one of its finest and most celebrated releases. Other unlikely collaborators crop up throughout, with Ike Turner on 'Every Planet We Reach Is Dead', Neneh Cherry sexily supporting 'Kids With Guns' and Dennis Hopper narrating a tale about the happy folk on 'Fire Coming Out Of A Monkey's Head'.ДЄ concise and enjoyable 50 minutes, Demon Days is so much more than just a rock star's novelty side project or thinly veiled solo album. But the album's highlight has to be the rumbling dub of 'All Alone' which unites Roots Manuva with Martina Topley-Bird. Shaun Ryder guests on the mighty 'Dare', and sounds more alive than he has for years.

GORILLAZ DEMON DAYS ALBUM REVIEW DOWNLOAD

Tracks such as the basstastic current hit single 'Feel Good Inc' featuring De La Soul and the free download 'Dirty Harry', which seems to blend the menace of a children's choir over a Tom Tom Club-ish funk stand out.

Hooking up this time with Dangermouse, who produced the online bootlegGrey Album which spliced Jay-Z's Black and The Beatles' White albums together to create merry copyright hell, Albarn has accumulated a stellar supporting cast of star guests to broaden Gorillaz's musical horizon.

Singles aside, the debut album sounded somewhat unfinished, with most tracks being no more than vague sketches.Дemon Days is a different, more widescreen kettle of fish altogether. We knew the band was supposedly made up of ten year old musical genius Noodle, Satan worshipping green toothed bassist Murdoc, cuddly brick sh*thouse drummer Russel and the blue-haired singer 2D 'for the ladies', but it essentiallysounded like an Albarn solo album produced by then-collaborator Dan The Automator. WhenGorillaz's debut album came out in 2002, buoyed by the huge success of the 'Clint Eastwood' single, no one really knew what Albarn and co. Gorillaz return with a blisteringly good album that happily skips from genre to genre and looks set to be one of the most rewarding albums you'll hear this year.

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