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The funniest interlude here is performed by comedian Steve Martin, but sounds a lot like a Monty Python riff in the movie “The Life of Brian” shortly after his mother asserts that “he’s not the messiah, he’s a very naughty boy.” In the movie, Brian preaches to the crowd who has followed him home, “You’re all individuals,” to which the entire crowd echoes back his words, and then one poor guy raises his had to say, “I’m not.” For the Gorillaz “Non-Conformist Oath,” the crowd all commits simultaneously to be “different” and “unique.” The joke is on a culture that is shaped by a compelling desire to fit in, and be like everyone else.īut here, the resulting collective work feels pretty much like a party mix-tape for a private club just off one of the main business strips in the movie, “Blade Runner,” where citizens escape to hit the dance floor and forget the craziness of life in their all too real world. What is constant, is Albarn and his studio cohorts love of deep groove, and trust in their collaborators to develop moving and evocative melody lines. In other words, the 16 diverse songs that make up the release, feel as though they are as pulling us in as many different directions as they can. Which is to say, that although the seven-year-old project Plastic Beach felt more like an artistic whole with its eco-friendly expressions wrapped up in the album’s conceptual shaping, here on Humanz, Albarn and his many collaborators express a more exuberant and less focused vision this time around.

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The Fall was also released in 2010 as a download only through the band’s fanclub.). Hewlett’s cartoon creations that make up the pretend band of “post-apocalyptic youth,” at least musically, Humanz may actually be the most human product of their 5-album collaboration (Gorillaz have released four albums commercially: the eponymous debut, (2001) Demon Days (2005) Plastic Beach (2010) and, this latest collection. While you can’t say the same thing about Damon Albarn and J.C. Okay, The Monkees’ four characters were definitely conceived as cartoon-esque two-dimensional stick figures, but as time developed they grew as individualized, even humanized themselves. Fire Note Says: Cartoon urban, dance/rap-core band, Gorillaz return with a mix-tape for the apocalypse.Īlbum Review: Two cartoon bands come to mind: Gorillaz, and The Archies.