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Luckily, Burton got a second chance to make an impression on the world's ears. Damon Albarn, the singer-songwriter behind the acclaimed British band Blur and the multiplatinum rap-rock concoction Gorillaz, heard The Grey Album and liked it. "But I loved the metaphor," says Albarn, "the mixing of genres and the idea that you can take past and present and make something futuristic." Albarn summoned Burton to London and quickly hired him to produce Gorillaz's second album, Demon Days, out this week. Albarn says he and Burton had "loads of music" in common. They are also both...
...floating island powered by a Dutch windmill. Sound familiar? God, I hope not. This is the basic plot of “Feel Good Inc.,” the long-awaited new release from the world’s preeminent animated brainy hip-hop all-star extravaganza Gorillaz (and De La Soul guest on this track!), and it’s hot. It’s not pushing any boundaries, (and, hey, what is these days?) but the video is visually pleasing, and helium-injected earth-chunks being chased by helicopters into the sunset always make me smile?...
...hard drive full of MP3s crashed during exams, so me and my iPod are still reeling from that, and I haven’t bothered to download or find anything new since. My roommates and I have been listening to the pre-release 12” from the Gorillaz and Daft Punk. The new Justus Kohncke record as well as the Bloc Party LP have been on pretty constant rotation since January. Also, grime: anything by Wiley, or anything off the Run the Road comp. The new LCD Soundsystem record is worth buying just for the bonus disc that compiles...
...without its resident guitar slinger. Despite the new breakthrough, Albarn says, "I don't mind if I'm still called Britpop. We are British and we are popular. It's actually quite an apt description." The band had recently pursued side-projects, notably Albarn's virtual dub band Gorillaz, which sold 5 million albums and allowed him to collaborate with an international mix of musicians. Some influences naturally stuck. "You can't help but move on from whatever point you last made music," says Albarn. "It maybe came out more than it would have done if Graham hadn't been...
...musical shift is understandable, considering the less than amicable departure of stalwart guitarist Graham Coxon (the band cited “antisocial behavior”). Fortunately for listeners, Coxon’s absence leaves Albarn free to incorporate influences from recent collaborators Gorillaz, for whom Albarn served as frontman, and Massive Attack...