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Handling most of the production himself, Albarn has reversed the good fortune of the first two Gorillaz albums. And when he shares or cedes vocals, he has the good sense to turn things over to luminaries like Lou Reed (magnificently dry-throated on 'Some Kind of Nature') and Bobby Womack (good on first single 'Stylo', better on the twangy 'Cloud of Unknowing'), while effortlessly integrating them into the sound. On the standout 'On Melancholy Hill', he recalls the swooning strains of one of his heroes, Scott Walker. Albarn also sounds more comfortable as a leader here than he has in some time.

It's a noble conceit, if a transient one.Īlong with a typically diverse band of collaborators, Albarn dips into Krautrock, funk, and dubstep, as well as the weary, more melodic music he's been perfecting for much of last decade- sort of an electronic take on baroque pop. So Albarn devised Plastic Beach, a loose enviromental-song cycle warning against disposability. Hewlett, the celebrated Tank Girl co-creator, told The Observer last July, 'Gorillaz now to us is not like four animated characters anymore- it's more like an organization of people doing new projects.' The project was to be called Carousel, presented by, but not performed by, Gorillaz. So why make this a Gorillaz album in the first place? It wasn't meant to be one.

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