 | Tracklist:
1. Orchestral Intro
2. Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach
3. White Flag
4. Rhinestone Eyes
5. Stylo
6. Superfast Jellyfish
7. Empire Ants
8. Glitter Freeze
9. Some Kind of Nature
10. On Melancholy Hill
11. Broken
12. Sweepstakes
13. Plastic Beach
14. To Binge
15. Cloud of Unknowing
16. Pirate Jet
Release Date: 2010 | |
| | other reviews | sobelecta (4.5)
Album number three doesn't disappoint from the former Blur man.... | TheSmoke (4.5)
Plastic Beach is an very good album that nerver gets boring, it´s dreamy and it´s not compareable ... | Deviant STAFF (4)
Round 3 for Albarn and co. proves that third time is still indeed the charm.... | piero (4)
Maybe Plastic Beach represents the beginning of the end of musical labeling, the start of an embrace... | DhA (4)
Not that different from previous releases, although the lack of a killer single may make this a fans... | insomniac15 (3.5)
After two brilliant efforts, Albarn & Co. are back with a bigger number, this time more serious and... | Plutonio (3)
Plastic Beach is another album from hip-hop's eclectic superheroes; this time their eclecticism can ... | Nick Butler STAFF (2.5)
An identity crisis caught on record.... | clavichordwolf (2)
Plastic Beach is nothing but candy-coated bullshit played for satire.... |
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| Summary: Damon Albarn establishes himself as a pop auteur. Pop hits be damned, consistency rules here. |
2 of 2 thought this review was well written
Listening to Gorillaz, Damon Albarn's virtual supergroup's debut album, twelve years later, reveals how much the band was more of an extension of Blur, two-parts britpop plus one-part hip hop, rather than the dramatic sonic break they seemed to be at the time. Moreover, the album sounds a mess compared to the cohesion of mood and sound of its follow-up, the excellent Demon Days. Plastic Beach, in turn, further deepens and consolidates the band's sound. Albarn has finally left britpop (and, for the most part, guitars) behind, in favor of symphonic flourishes and layers of synthesizers.
Gorillaz has always been a protean collective of artists shaped by Albarn, but it was possible to imagine an actual (cartoon) band playing its own music. On Plastic Beach, however, it's clear that Gorillaz is the vehicle of a singular voice. Even when Albarn's vocal is absent (as it is on much of the album), his force is felt more than ever, especially his incredible knack for melody, which only Stephin Merritt, his closest contemporary, rivals. Here Albarn is more composer than performer, one who allows his guest stars to shine (like Lou Reed, who recalls his former greatness on "Some Kind of Nature").
The sound of Plastic Beach is best expressed by "Empire Ants," which begins as a Dark Side of the Moon ballad that eventually gives birth, and cedes, to an electronic stomp led by Little Dragon. Its best tracks, "Stylo," "Rhinestone Eyes," "White Flag," bend and twist. The album also provides many straightforward pleasures, the giddy "Superfast Jellyfish" (whose chorus recalls the band's past heights), the gorgeous and appropriately titled "On Melancholy Hill," and the equally beautiful Bobby Womack showstopper "Cloud of Unknowing."
Plastic Beach trades big hits for consistency. No song matches the immediate brilliance of singles like "Clint Eastwood," Feel Good Inc.," or "DARE." Yet the whole towers over its parts, and Plastic Beach towers over its predecessors. This is pop music at its funky, oddball best.
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i can't believe i haven't heard this yet.
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trash
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yeah, its not very good (the album not your review)
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lies
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albums awsome
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POWER ON THE MOTHERBOARD
YES
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best gorillaz
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prob the best gorillaz album
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I concur with the reviewed. It is a grower for sure and more cohesive. Didn't care for it until after 5 listens or so, but often that is usually a good sign.
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Rhinestone eyes, White Flag, Superfast jellyfish, Stylo, On Melancholy Hill, Broken
There's some great songs on here. Some filler too, though
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r u crazy superfast jellyfish is the gayest most obnoxious song ever written
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Yeah that song is awful
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i want to take my cd and scratch the shit out of the little portion of the disc that is that song cuz id rather hear skippy fuzz sounds then that horrible horrible song. ugh De La Soul what happened to you.
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