Word: albarnã
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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...songs on the soundtrack, by virtue of the talent of the contributors alone, conform to a base level of excellence, some tracks still manage to stand out. Redman and Gorrilaz put forth “Gorillaz On My Mind,” a playful track melding ape noises, Damon Albarn??s self-mocking “La-la-la-la”s off Blur’s “Charmless Man” and Redman’s charming lyrics like “Full of whiskey/ Looking for Lewinsky/ So I can get head...
...Clint Eastwood,” the summer-engulfing single set off by Albarn??s slack-jawed “I ain’t happy, I’m feeling glad…” hook, and rounded off by Del’s spiritual-mentor rap is one of those songs. The songs that lodge in the crevices of the brain, and emerge periodically to sun themselves, setting an entire room absently humming, “I’m useless / But not for long…” Yet it might have all gone...
...band also struggled with a deficiency of material. There are hardly any weak tracks on the album, but that doesn’t always translate into gripping live renditions, particularly given the contrived nature of the performance. “Sound Check (Gravity)” gloriously united Albarn??s wailing fallen-cherub falsetto and a gritty, turn-table led melody with an eerie, unsettling video. “Tomorrow Comes Today,” the band’s new single, knit together accelerated London cityscape footage to create a background for the band members...
...best tracks on G-Sides are still the unpredictable Albarn-influenced tracks, chiefly the zombie-gospel song “Ghost Train,” a weird trip through groovy electronics highlighted by Albarn??s urgent, woozy falsetto. Nakamura says they will be working on “another record sometime next year” if not earlier, depending on how the various band members can continue to balance their other projects from the odd situation of having a side project get larger than anything most of them had ever done before. Certainly there will be more lunacy...