I'm hoping that Gorillaz fans searching for 'The Fall' will unwittingly click here or here. posted by grounded at 11:10 AM on December 25, 2010 [6 favorites]
You can just click on the "I'm on the mailing list" link at the bottom if you want. posted by delmoi at 11:14 AM on December 25, 2010 [2 favorites]
Back in 2007 Damon said that there weren't going to be anymore Gorillaz albums. Since then he's done two.
I'm hoping that Gorillaz fans searching for 'The Fall' will unwittingly click here or here yt .
... and then via the magic of youtube side-links, they find themselves here, where they were always meant to be on this most prestigious of neo-pagan Holy Roman virgin birthdays.
Just for those of you expecting Plastic Beach, Part II: this album basically falls in with Gorillaz's release habit of putting out a fully fleshed out, "full" album (not that this one isn't any good or anything), and shortly after releasing an album of other material/remixes.
I'm pleased to see, however, that it's all interesting new work, and no terrible remixes. posted by Askiba at 12:04 PM on December 25, 2010
> Why can't he be as capricious about Blur?
Blur involves hooking up with three particular other people and working with them again on an extended basis. The only person Albarn really has to get in touch with to make some more Gorillaz stuff is Hewlett. Which doesn't have to be any more intimate than some e-mail saying 'hey mate I'm almost done with a new Gorillaz album, can you draw some stuff for it?'
And hell, I'd still check out a Gorillaz album at this point if Albarn had someone else drawing his cartoon alter-egos. posted by egypturnash at 12:10 PM on December 25, 2010 [2 favorites]
Hmm. This crashed my Safari flash plugin. Can one listen to the album on an iPad? posted by snofoam at 12:26 PM on December 25, 2010
I'm hoping that Gorillaz fans searching for 'The Fall' will unwittingly click here or here.
Mark E Smith made an appearance on the last Gorillaz album, didn't he? posted by Hoopo at 12:46 PM on December 25, 2010 [1 favorite]
I'm gonna piggyback on your post. Here's Robyn Hitchcock offering up a free stream of covers (Cave, Cash, Drake, Bowie, Dylan, and others).
Low offers up a free EP dl in exchange for an email address. posted by dobbs at 12:52 PM on December 25, 2010 [6 favorites]
Blur involves hooking up with three particular other people and working with them again on an extended basis.
I'm not in a position to listen to it right now, but asking from the point of view of someone who loved Demon Days but didn't like a single track on Plastic Beach... how is it? posted by rifflesby at 5:58 PM on December 25, 2010
Listened this morning, really enjoyed it. Pretty minimal but lots of good melodies lurking in the dark corners. posted by ericthegardener at 5:59 PM on December 25, 2010
Rifflesby: It's hard to say for sure. It's not quite what you're expecting.
As for not liking Plastic Beach? For the second time in this thread I call blasphemy! Then again, I could see the change in direction to more poppy melodies off putting. posted by Askiba at 6:24 PM on December 25, 2010
I'm not in a position to listen to it right now, but asking from the point of view of someone who loved Demon Days but didn't like a single track on Plastic Beach... how is it?
As a person who it took a long time for most of Plastic Beach to grow on (and a couple tracks just never will do it for me), I have to say this release is seriously goddamn good. I like it way better than than PB after just one listen.
Then again, I'm full of a lot of Christmas cheer at the moment. posted by Marla Singer at 10:07 PM on December 25, 2010
Somewhere between this album and Plastic Beach, Gorillaz released Doncamatic, which is really worth at least one listen (if only for Daley's curious voice):
posted by grounded at 11:10 AM on December 25, 2010 [6 favorites]