Album Rating: 2.8

new one is comically better than this, best since Plastic Beach

I have a really hard time believing that.
Haven't clicked with any of the singles.

Album Rating: 4.0

New ones dropped!? Liked this album to be fair so if it's better, then it's a bonus!

Album Rating: 3.5

I don't really get the Cracker Island hate. I thought it was their strongest since Plastic Beach, with lots of fun tracks and the highest average quality in a while.



Didn't check any of the singles of the new one. Glad to see it's getting some love.



I'll check it out later today.

Album Rating: 4.0

Prefer this tbh

the indian music overarching theme is so hit/miss uuugh. But yeah, it is better than this, ig...

Album Rating: 3.0

Haven't clicked with any of the singles. [2]



they were all horrible

singles were mostly bops. excited to the listen to the new one over the weekend, def feels like their most ambitious in yonks

I like the new one a lot. Easily best since Plastic Beach anyway.

Album Rating: 3.5

The new one is good, but it's definitely going to require multiple listens. I enjoyed Cracker Island because it felt like a nice collection of fun Gorillaz tunes, capturing everything Albarn does well as a writer. This album is dense, and while I love the atmosphere it feels plodding at times. There isn't a whole lot of joy in it, but maybe that's the point.

Well it is inspired by death and grief, (Albarn and Hewlett's fathers died within 10 days of each other). That said, it definitely still has some poppier moments (even if the subject matter is dark).

Album Rating: 2.8

new one will age very well, in a couple years no one will even remember this one lmao



Empty Dream Machine/Manifesto is their best 10 minutes of music since like... the last 3 on Demon Days

Album Rating: 2.0

Agree that the new album is their best since Plastic Beach. Really, really enjoying it.

Album Rating: 1.5 | Sound Off

'Damascus' and 'The Empty Dream Machine' are the only two I'd say were real keepers on it for me after two listens...but I might return to it.



Gorillaz and Albarn in general are one of my 'most overrated', I don't quite get it with his song writing, but he strikes gold from time to time.

He's certainly managed to have an incredible career with quite an average (albeit warm and familiar) voice. Songwriting though is way up there for me.

Top 5 Albarn:

1 13 - Blur
2 The Good, the Bad & the Queen - S/T debut
3 Plastic Beach - Gorillaz
4 Parklife - Blur
5 New Gorillaz or maybe most recent Blur.

Album Rating: 2.0

Writing my review atm. Love the new album. First one I've rly been into since PB

Album Rating: 1.5 | Sound Off

It's funny, my two most played by Albarn are the Blur s/t and 'Demon Days'...easily thirty album plays of both those ones, a pair of 3 out of 5 ratings.



Next are 'Think Tank' and 'Plastic Beach'...about twenty play or more I guess, again a pair of 3s.



Then 'Parklife' and 'the Gorillaz debut...about ten goes through I'd imagine...a pair of 3s.



Albarn is a 3 ceiling artist I like to check in on but even the albums I like are half 'pretty great' songs and half 'pretty okay' songs.



I might have ten Albarn albums sitting on a 3 out of 5.

Album Rating: 2.0

That's a fair assessment tbh. I can always find tracks I enjoy from their albums post-PB, but I don't normally replay entire albums after identifying the clear best tracks. Mountain is different, though. It actually feels like a fully realized album. It has a throughline. I can see people still finding the content bland or bloated, but it works for me this time around.

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

Picked the new one up at target and the vinyl had scratches and looked like someone ashed a cigarette onto all sides. Immediately got it exchanged and 2nd go seems fine, but all the ones on the shelf had ringwear/a crease on the upper left/and the obi strips on all of them were slightly crumbled. Sooo yeah idk either unlucky or got quality control issues

imo Song Machine had the most "at least good" bunch of tracks since PB