these rock, wondering if anyone else had listened to either and your opinions.
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BOSTON
love broken bells, because anything danger mouse does seems to work for me. great vibe.
the new gorillaz is alright imho (the video for stylo is BADASS), but its hard to live up to demon days, which is one of my favorite albums ever! maybe i just need to give it time
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Milton Keynes, England
still have not listened to new gorillaz... not really into them 
but i listened to broken bells back when it first leaked and found it incredibly boring... i don't honestly get all the hype around it... i still need to listen again just to give it a fair chance... but it really did nothing for me the first time round, so it's hard to find the motivation to make myself listen again.
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philly
The Stylo music video is awesome. I saw CDK post it on facebook, otherwise, I might not have seen it!
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IL, US
the new gorillaz is ok, some really damn good songs on it (well, mostly sweepstakes), but overall, kinda slightly above average to me..i was expecting more after the first two albums, to be honest
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Litebritedeath Land
e.s.c. wrote:
the new gorillaz is ok, some really damn good songs on it (well, mostly sweepstakes), but overall, kinda slightly above average to me..i was expecting more after the first two albums, to be honest
I agree but it's better if you take the story into account and all the albums as a whole. in plastic beach 2d has been kidnapped, thrown on an island, and forced to make fake music.
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Litebritedeath Land
e.s.c. wrote:
umm, not a good excuse if you ask me
I just think it fits that the sound would be less group like and of course have a more depressing tone. Even the Stylo video fits the idea. 2D looks freaked out and depressed for the whole thing. There is another animated sequence that goes with Stylo showing him getting gassed and kidnapped. I appreciate the Gorrilaz as a story and the art just as much as the music but thats just my opinion. The book Rise of the Ogre explains everything that is going on between the albums.
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Litebritedeath Land
Albarn said in an interview, "I'm making this one the most pop record I've ever made in many ways, but with all my experience to try and at least present something that has got depth."[3] He added, "I suppose what I've done with this Gorillaz record is I've tried to connect pop sensibility with ... trying to make people understand the essential melancholy of buying a ready made meal in loads of plastic packaging. People who watch X Factor might have some emotional connection to these things, this detritus that accompanies what seems to be the most important thing in people's eyes, the celebrity voyeurism."[3]
The first time Albarn went to Mali, he was taken to a landfill where he saw people "taking every little bit, a little bit of fabric to the fabric regenerators, or the metal and the cans to the ironsmiths and the aluminium recyclers, and it goes on and by the time you get to the road, they're selling stuff."[3] When Albarn went to a landfill outside of London to record the sound of seagulls for the album, he noticed a juxtaposition between the way the two countries dealt with rubbish.[3] "They've got more snakes... like adders, grass snakes, slow worms, toads, frogs, newts, all kinds of rodents, all kinds of squirrels, a massive amount of squirrels, a massive amount of foxes, and obviously, seagulls. [...] This is part of the new ecology. And for the first time I saw the world in a new way. I've always felt, I'm trying to get across on this new record, the idea that plastic, we see it as being against nature but it's come out of nature. We didn't create plastic, nature created plastic. And just seeing the snakes like living in the warmth of decomposing plastic bags. They like it. It was a strange kind of optimism that I felt... but trying to get that into pop music is a challenge, anyway. But important."[3]
Albarn says the album maintains a lot of the melancholy from Carousel.[3] He worked hard on making his lyrics and melodies clear on the album.[3] "Loads of orchestral stuff" was recorded but only a fraction made it onto the final album.[3]
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Litebritedeath Land
^^ explains the different direction the album takes compared to the others.
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IL, US
im just saying, this album doesnt sound as good to me as the first gorillaz, mostly because dan the automator is one hell of a producer...and i find this album overall too happy for my tastes and too lyrically shallow
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Litebritedeath Land
e.s.c. wrote:
im just saying, this album doesnt sound as good to me as the first gorillaz, mostly because dan the automator is one hell of a producer...and i find this album overall too happy for my tastes and too lyrically shallow
Yeah I see where you are coming from. This is my least favorite of their albums but I still enjoy it.
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Philly/NY
Plastic Beach is really good. Like others have said, not as good as Demon Days, but still damn solid.
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Brunswick, GA USA
One of the fake cartoon interviews from Demon Days has Murdoc saying that Gorillaz is about "dark optimism, whatever that is."