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...from Avalon. As the line shuffled its way towards the door, the thumping sound of the opening set by DJ and founding Gorilla Dan “The Automator” Nakamura throbbed out on to the street. Inside, the crowd was as hip, diverse and giddy as the band??s eponymous debut album: slightly ostentatious, but mostly with a self-deprecating sense of humor. As Nakamura’s set finished, Gorillaz cartoonist (and Tank Girl creator) Jamie Hewlett sipped his beer nervously behind his banks of projectors ranged on a platform at the back...
...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’t actually there? Can you have a two-dimensional guitar hero (or heroine, for that matter)? Is 2-D actually as cute as Albarn himself...
...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. Yet in the end, the band reprised both “Clint Eastwood” and “Tomorrow Comes Today,” with slightly different video footage...
...onscreen incarnation, Rushmore’s dork king Jason Schwartzman got to be the president of the Debate Society and the founder of the Bee Keepers Club. In real life, he gets to play drums for the sunny post-grunge band Phantom Planet. The band??s new label, Epic, has dolled up the fivesome in worn denim and messy hair, plopped them on a sidewalk stoop and photographed them in black and white for an album cover worthy of The Strokes. And why not? If that band can make it big with throwbacks to punk?...
Fleck fans will enjoy the mixture of the familiar with an edge of strangeness and novelty. Those unfamiliar with Fleck will get an excellent taste of the band??s talent in a captivating listening experience that is utterly unlike anything elsewhere. For anyone bored with the radio-friendly sounds that are climbing the charts, this album is a must have...