Album Rating: 3.0

it's far from a bad song, but gorillaz singles (outside of superfast jellyfish) are normally total bangers, so I kinda got the disdain

Album Rating: 3.5

Ascension is great I love staple's lyrics



The worst parts of all of the songs are Albarn's vocals

Album Rating: 4.0

Amen Money is just so fuckin chill though

The avg of this is still stupidly low

Album Rating: 4.5

cuz people are mad it's not demon days

Album Rating: 4.0

This is pretty inconsistent but there's some great tracks here. It's about as good as the debut.

I rlly don't dislike a single track on this. Have this on vinyl, Welcome to the Plastic Beach and like one other track is a little jittery but it was my first record, used and got it from a friend.

White Flag is such a good track, one of my favs on here

Album Rating: 3.5

"This is pretty inconsistent but there's some great tracks here. It's about as good as the debut."

100% my feeling. Their only consistent album so far is Demon Days, the reviewer is slightly tripping balls. That being said, the highs on this album are incredibly high.

this is as consistent as dd

Album Rating: 4.5

has a bit more bumps than dd imo

Album Rating: 3.5

Another thing about this LP that bothers me is that it never really finds a way to gel Damon's 2D parts with the guests (outside of Stylo, which is fantastic, and To Binge, which is one of my least favourite Gorillaz tracks). That leaves the non-guest tracks like On Melancholy Hill, Rhinestone Eyes and Plastic Beach as the easiest standouts IMO.

Hopefully the new album finds a way to reconcile Albarn and the guests as they did on the first 2 albums. Saturnz Barz does this brilliantly I think. The way he takes control of the track halfway throug and then picks up Popcaan's melodies.

Plastic Beach has guests

Album Rating: 3.5

Whoops. The embarrassing thing is I was listening to that track as I wrote it.

OK, well Rhinestone Eyes and On Melancholy Hill then.

Empire Ants?

Ya I kinda don't agree with the guest thing. I feel like guest singers always outperform Albarn in Gorillaz tracks. His voice is still pleasant, but I enjoy how this served as a vessel for other artists to project themselves.

Album Rating: 3.5

Each to their own. I can't say you're wrong. I just personally like it when they flow nicely together, like in Clint Eastwood, November Has Come, Feel Good Inc, DARE etc. But Gorillaz has definitely always been a showcase for other artists, especially for Del, Ibrahim Ferrer and Cibo Matto on the debut.

Ye, and also I feel like Humanz is going to be in the guest department thematically a continuation for this record; A vessel for fellow artists to showcase themselves. Many of the names on the tracklist are minor names in music currently, I feel like the new album is going to give them a platform to gain recognition from.

Album Rating: 5.0

I think I get Ascension now. I was listening to it while walking back from uni and it kinda felt like Vince is in this hypothetical scenario where there's a nuclear war (the siren at the start of the song) and even still he sees police patrolling around everywhere (I assume racial prejudice is implied) and he's just like "dude, the world's about to fucking end, can't you just let us have this?"

Exactly! Feela so fucking cathartic.

Album Rating: 4.5

honestly this is their biggest accomplishment