Big yes
I mean the entire "song machine" premise kind of solidifies that they've given up on conceptual cohesion or sonic consistency entirely in favor of just compiling a bunch of tracks built as singles
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There are some bad songs for sure but I count at least 8 pretty great songs.
If I made my own Gorillaz mixtape consisting like 15-20 songs hand picked from their entire discog it would be one of my favourite albums of all time probably. Plastic beach is the only rly sonically cohesive album of theirs imo. They've always had that issue of being a singles band
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Album Rating: 3.8
This line from the other review "Of course, this is still Damon Albarn, who can’t make a consistently strong album to save his life, and Song Machine is not exempt from the requisite failed experiments and bland filler." is so true.
Whether it's Blur or Gorillaz, I can't say any one album by Albarn is amazing or anything; they all have at least 2 or 3 songs that're mediocre at best, sometimes bad. With that in mind, this is one of his best, and agreed that a playlist of hand picked best Gorillaz songs would be an amazing album.
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Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off
"Best songs on this are leaaaaagues better than anything on either humanz or now now imo
Could not disagree more about consistency. Album ranges from 1/5 songs to 5/5 songs lmao. But it is better than the last two for sure"
I don't see how you figure. Songs like humility, souk eye, strobelite, saturnz barz, the apprentice, busted and blue, all crush anything on this album. Where are the 5/5 songs here? They don't exist
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Aries obliterates all of those, especially busted and blue which is a broke ass track
Not to mention the half dozen other tracks I prefer over any of those
Subjectivity a bitch I know
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Is it
Demon days
Plastic beach
S/t
Song machine
Now now
Humanz
The fall?
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Humility would be one of the worst tracks on an actually good album, it just has the illusion of being really good because it's memorable unlike most of The Now Now
Same goes for Busted and Blue tbh
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It cant be that memorable seeing as I had to go back and check which wong it was just now lmao
It sucks
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
The Beck song is so fun, can he just go this direction his next album lmao
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Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off
beck lmao
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I like pagans but 4 minutes is about as long as I can tolerate anything involving Beck
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Album Rating: 3.5
This is fun stuff. I wish they still operated at a bit more of a distance lyrically though. Their music loses a fair bit of appeal when features are rapping literally/directly. Feels less like a Gorillaz feature and more like a bunch of loosies sellotaped on top of instrumentals
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
Lmao yes Beck still trying
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Lol busted and blue is like bottom 5 gorillaz
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Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off
it's nice 'nuff. i like the alternative take sung in arabic a bit more, tho.
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"The Beck song is so fun, can he just go this directi"on his next album lmao"
He already did it's called midnite vultures and the whole thing is better than Pagans
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Moonchild Sanelly fucks apparently https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RBsGd3eXBw
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lol yeah, the whole ep is good
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Album Rating: 4.4
beck sucks ass but ngl the last minute of Pagans is tight as hell. 2D redeems that whole thing
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No
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