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...long…” Yet it might have all gone unnoticed, were it not for Hewlett’s trippy videos and their goofy characters. For, as far as their public image is concerned, those characters from the video are the band: 2-D, the Albarn character with spiky hair and a vacant smile, Russel the grinning, baseball-capped drummer, Noodle the 11 year-old Japanese guitar goddess, and the evil, scowling bassist Murdoc...
...music to fit in a single category in the record store, and have created neverending subgenres to aid the process. Gorillaz, in contrast, straddle genres nearly as cockily as they bestride the Atlantic. Which is no surprise really: the band is the brainchild of, amongst others, the inimitable Damon Albarn. Frontman of the quintessentially British sounding band, Blur, he still managed to strap on some sneakers and make like a New York indie band with “Song 2” (aka the “Woohoo Song”). Together with Nakamura, Cibo Matto’s Miho...
...Clint Eastwood,” which Del graced with a different rap than the album version. Yet, despite Del’s exhortations, the audience didn’t exactly rock out, and was even a little hesitant to join in the infinitely crowd-worthy chorus, even when Albarn called repeatedly for the audience to sing along. They were certainly captivated by the bizarre series of images paraded before them, but it lacked a certain immediacy. How do you sing along with someone who you can’t see? Who, according to the band’s mythology, isn?...
...between pop (“Falling Away,” sounds like endearing high-school rock), country (the tobacco-chewing slide guitar on “A Treasure @ Silver Bank”) and the indie sound that made him famous. Stairs has a voice that is half American Damon Albarn and half John Frusciante—often lazy, never overbearing, which means that his voice becomes just another instrument. The lyrics are either so nonsensical or sufficiently obscure that it’s tricky to tell the difference between the two: “Driving the whalebones home / 18 hours...
This all-star brainchild of Damon Albarn from Blur; Dan (the Automator) Nakamura; Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz from Tom Tom Club; and Tank Girl animator Jamie Hewlett is technically a concept album: the CD plays a cartoon on your computer. Well, forget the 'toon and listen to the tunes, for this is the most imaginative pop record of the year. Nakamura's beats are wonderfully atmospheric and danceable; Del Tha Funky Homosapien's playful rhymes are the perfect foil to Albarn's ennui-filled vocals, and Weymouth's giant bass whomps away throughout...