Polski opis

Typ :	Album
Gatunek :	Alternatywa
Rok wydania :	2006
Jakość :	MPC Q7
Okładki :	Nie
Ripper :	lupus

Opis:
Drugi studyjny album "animowanej" formacji dowodzonej przez Damona Albarna, a której skład wygląda oficjalnie następująco: Noodle (gitara), 2-D (wokal), Murdoc Nicalls (bas) oraz Russel Hobbs (perkusja). To tylko pseudonimy, wiadomo bowiem, że w całość przedsięwzięcia, oprócz wspomnianego już lidera Blur zamieszani są Dan "The Automator" Nakamura, Miho Hatori (z Cibo Matto), Tina Weymouth i Chris Frantz (z The Tom Tom Club) oraz rysownik Jamie Hewlett. Na longplay składa się 15 premierowych kompozycji, które - jak twierdzą ich twórcy - są "bardziej mroczne" niż poprzednio. W tworzeniu "Demon Days" grupie pomogli m.in. Neneh Cherry, Martina Topley-Bird, Roots Manuva, Ike Turner, Shaun Ryder, Denis Hopper oraz członkowie formacji De La Soul, zaś pierwszym promującym krążek singlem jest "Feel Good Inc." Nagrania zostały wyprodukowane wspólnie przez zespół Gorillaz oraz Damona Albarna. Sesja odbyła się we własnym studiu grupy - Kong Studios, a większość kompozycji napisała podobno gitarzystka: "Noodle sama napisała większość utworów na nową płytę" - mówi perkusista zespołu - Russel Hobbs. "Murdoc może przypisywać to sobie, ale począwszy od pierwszego szkicu do zakończenia albumu była to wizja Noodle." Przypomnijmy, że debiut grupy, "Gorillaz" (2001), sprzedał się na całym świecie w liczbie 6 milionów egzemplarzy.

Źródło: muzyka.onet.pl

 English description

Type :	Album
Genre :	Alternative
Release Date :	2006
Quality :	MPC Q7
Covers :	No
Ripper :	lupus

Damon Albarn went to great pains to explain that the first Gorillaz album was a collaboration between him, cartoonist Jamie Hewlett, and producer Dan the Automator, but any sort of pretense to having the virtual pop group seem like a genuine collaborative band was thrown out the window for the group's long-awaited 2005 sequel, Demon Days. Hewlett still provides new animation for Gorillaz — although the proposed feature-length film has long disappeared — but Dan the Automator is gone, leaving Albarn as the unquestioned leader of the group. This isn't quite similar to Blur, a genuine band that faltered after Graham Coxon decided he had enough, leaving Damon behind to construct the muddled Think Tank largely on his own. No, Gorillaz were always designed as a collective, featuring many contributors and producers, all shepherded by Albarn, the songwriter, mastermind, and ringleader. Hiding behind Hewlett's excellent cartoons gave Albarn the freedom to indulge himself, but it also gave him focus since it tied him to a specific concept. Throughout his career, Albarn always was at his best when writing in character — to the extent that anytime he wrote confessionals in Blur, they sounded stagy — and Gorillaz not only gave him an ideal platform, it liberated him, giving him the opportunity to try things he couldn't within the increasingly dour confines of Blur. It wasn't just that the cartoon concept made for light music — on the first Gorillaz album, Damon sounded as if he were having fun for the first time since Parklife. But 2005 is a much different year than 2001, and if Gorillaz exuded the heady, optimistic, future-forward vibes of the turn of the millennium, Demon Days is as theatrically foreboding as its title, one of the few pop records made since 9/11 that captures the eerie unease of living in the 21st century. Not really a cartoony feel, in other words, but Gorillaz indulged in doom and gloom from their very first single, "Clint Eastwood," so this is not unfamiliar territory, nor is it all that dissimilar from the turgid moodiness of Blur's 2003 Think Tank. But where Albarn seemed simultaneously constrained and adrift on that last Blur album — attempting to create indie rock, yet unsure how since messiness contradicts his tightly wound artistic impulses — he's assured and masterful on Demon Days, regaining his flair for grand gestures that served him so well at the height of Britpop, yet tempering his tendency to overreach by keeping the music lean and evocative through his enlistment of electronica maverick Danger Mouse as producer...

Source: allmusic.com