Word: gorillaz
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...don’t fit that specific description, this music is still enjoyable. It’s really Easy Listening for our generation, with slow, mellow beats and flowing melodies. Groove Armada perfected the sound on their 1999 album, Vertigo. Now, European outfits like Kinobe, St. Germain and even Gorillaz are being included on these albums...
...quick summary for those that don’t know, because Gorillaz never entirely took off stateside the way they did in the UK, partly because Americans like their 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...
There were some wonderful moments. In place of between-song patter, which most bands make a hash of anyway, Hewlett had cartoon vignettes of the Gorillaz band at play. One segment showed 2-D trying to ramp over the somnolent Russel’s belly on a tiny tricycle, and getting thoroughly pounded for his pains. In an interview with the Harvard Crimson, Nakamura said of the cartoon-character front, “It’s easier to present on the web and on video, but it’s a little more work to present live?...
...Would you sing?’ and he was like, ‘No,’ but we won a bunch of money from him, and he was like, ‘Well, I’ll sing,’” says Nakamura), Gorillaz have remained as bizarre and unpredictable as ever. Their new album, G-sides, “a compilation of remixes, a couple of older songs that weren’t on the album,” according to Nakamura, betrays a flare for hip-hop that was only hinted at with Del?...
...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 and oddball vocals. Gorillaz get a lot of criticism for being ostentatiously and deliberately genre-blending, poppy and the first “virtual band.” There once was a time people welcomed innovation from those able to synthesise different ideas into an appealing whole. Love them or leave them, they...