Now that the dust has settled, its their best album since Plastic Beach for sure
Instant classic for me. Genuinely fantastic.
The Sad God makes me cry almost every time
It grows on me with each listen
They were so close, but the handful of "muh black suggering" lyrics keeps it from being phenomenal. The rap worked in DD and PB, as it kept the flow and the theme cohertent, but why on earth they STILL let overtly left leaning political lyrics into their songs after 16 years to be the worst part of the song is beyond me. Is it just impossible now to get ONE fucking album from them without the word "nigger" in it?
Are people seriously listening to their full albums? They're a fake band with cartoon avatars who make pop music, a virtual idol group like Love Live
>>129570667You live in a tiny, gray world.
i gave you atoms and you made a LE BOMB???????
Why'd they have to give Noodle such a fucked up haircut though?
>>129570682Have you heard of a band called Led Zeppelin?
>>129570682
>>129570701Damons lyrics have always been pretty boomer coded and on the nose, he made a whole album about le iphone is bad and did an entire album called modern life is rubbish with blur.
DELIRIUMDELIRIUM
you know the hardest thingis me seeing naked noodlethats the hardest thing
>>129570648>they STILL let overtly left leaning political lyrics into their songsBecause almost all good musicians are Leftists, and Damon is in the right side of history. Also, hip hop and n1gger music was always a big influence on gorillaz from the get-go
I bought it for a friend
>>129571022OPEN THE DOOR
Listened to it like 6 times already. They call it The Mountian because it's PEAK
I think I like The God of Lying the most
>The Manifesto
>>129571984You mean liberals, all the ones who are leftist are terrible, especially how they can't help insert their terrible politics into their lyrics
>>129569946i find it so cringe that they make a song to shit on turkmenistan and calling it dictatorship.what do these aging surburban hipster fags even know jackshit about this country, its culture, its customs, its history...?i'm not surprised that all those leftists are all hardcore expansionist and supporting whatever war the nato is in. they have been conditioned since early age to bring "justice" in the world.leftists are the new christian colonizers.
>>129572953single good post itt. project is garbage, nothing to even discuss>>129570667any band having a mascot and making the mascot center of attention is literal music for preteens or younger.
>>129572953Turkmen dictator guy was a youtube video essay meme a while back
>ITT:>newfags who are surprised and outraged that Gorillaz is political, and didn't get the message circa fucking Demon Days>Gorillazfags who can't stop glazing a mid album>insufferable dadrockfags who can't stop grinding and doing tricks on Robert Plant's dick, because they suck at listening to music and are afraid to branch out>/pol/fags who can't listen to a song if the dancing jester on the cover is a cartoon, black, or a leftyfag>one regular fag that's too afraid he'll exorcise the spirit of Rosa Parks if he types "nigger" once>one or two Turkmenistanis who think anyone who lives anywhere with running water and electricity should care about their dumpster micronationYou're welcome. You can hide the thread now. Go listen to the S/T instead.
>>129570648There's not a single good right-wing musician, all the good and talented musicians are left-wing
This album would've been better if all the rapping parts were change to the instrumental flute first song and its leitmotiv evolving. Also I don't know if its youtube but some of the mixes itself sounds squashed to me, not to mention the overused microphone effect on damon that some other anons pointed too. Its still cool with a lot of original ideas that said.
>I gave you blue skies, sweet fallacy>I gave you poppies for malady>I gave you white cells, you weaponised>I gave you garlands, you closed your eyes>In paradise
i listened 3 times its starting to click
For me it's Delirium
Okay kids have fun with your bing bing wahoo cartoon band and remember not to breed
>>129570476For me it's Sweet Prince
>>129569946didn't expect much but yeah it's pretty good, definitely not perfect, ironically sometimes Damon's singing is the weakest element, he sounds the same in every song with the same megaphone effect and it makes a cool song sound dull
>>129573054thanks smart anon, keep noticing!
>>129574757>>129570476those two songs one after another just fucking wreck me bros :(
>>129569946For me, its Damascus
>>129573422>i gave you atoms >you built a bomb
>>129570789I don't understand what you're getting at.
the mountain and the sad god are the only memorable tracks here. everything else sucks
>enjoying moon cave>nigger starts rappingthey always do thisthey do shit like empire ants, hong kong, pacman and tomorrow comes today. but they still make niggers ruin their songs.
>>129569946Yea Its good
>>129576351pacman has two rap verses
I wanna hate on The Manifesto because of all the rapping but the instrumental is so fucking good
>>129577118https://youtu.be/jbyzYCTOsR4(un)official version
i'm gonna be really sad when damon stops making music/dies
>>129573110Oh yeah?
>>129572953What do you know about turkmenistan?
>>129575074Why did that dumbass gave us atoms
>>129570648Reality and art tends to have a left-wing bias
>>129569946I don't think it surpasses Song Machine but it does perhaps match it.
I think there's a significant difference between blindly hating rap features and hating bad rap features. I will take literally any rap verse, any single bar off The Mountain before I ever make myself listen to Ascension's THE SKY'S FALLING BABY, DROP THAT ASS 'FORE IT CRASH nonsense again. That song doesn't suck because rap sucks, it sucks because it just fucking sucks.
>>129569946From best to worst>GreatThe Sweet Prince - I interpret this whole album as Damon working up the nerves to sing this song and it sticks the landing.The Moon Cave - The catchiest song on the album with a great energy and several progressions. The only Black Thought verse I liked on the album.>GoodThe Shadowy Light - A good track that reaches ascension with the guitar or sitar or whatever that plays for the final minute or so.Damascus - Sweepstakes but better.>OkayThe Happy Dictator - A little too quirky for its own good. Starts to feel like They Might Be Giants but not in a good way.The Mountain - A nice instrumental but this is really pushing what I'm even willing to accept as a Gorillaz song. They've done much shorter instrumental openings before but this one starts to feel like how the second half of the Yellow Submarine album is a bunch of film score made with dubious Beatles involvement.>MehThe Manifesto - Awkwardly structured. Damon's bit at the end needs to be cut. You could cut one of the first two foreign language verses. But that doesn't solve the problem of why even make the song this way in the first place? Proof has to be the dead celeb he knew the least but he gets the most highlighted feature. He's presented as an epic album centerpiece which feels like the grossest use of this dead people gimmick.Orange County - Really catchy and could have been great but it goes nowhere and repeats lyrics from the song before it.
>>129578284>Aggressively mehThe Hardest Thing - The vocals are poor and spoil the vocals in Orange County. The horns are nice enough but nothing stellar. It sounds like the world's most underwhelming Kanye beat actually.Delirium - Empire Ants but worse. Damon really didn't perform well across this whole album but he drops the ball here on what could have been a good track.Casablanca - And then there's this bitch. I'm hoping it'll grow on me because there's sounds in here that I like but this song is unexciting.>Getting badThe God of Lying - The best thing I can say is the chorus actually sounds like it could fit on Self-Titled. But the rest of this is obnoxious as hell.The Sad God - This is Black Thought's worst performance on the album but not the worst track he's on. The problem here is that both Damon and Tariq are giving very stilted stagey performances like they're reading lines.>BadThe Plastic Guru - That Blur song Tender which I actually like but this is much much worse.The Empty Dream Machine - Something is wrong with Damon's voice across this whole album. This song is so rough to listen to that I actually feel slighted as a fan by this failure of quality control.
Current-day Gorillaz feels like that episode of South Park where everybody only likes Phil Collins when they're on Ritalin except it's real. It's sofuckingBORING.It's the same shit they've been doing for the past decade, repetitive electronic beats with Damon doing some singsongy bullshit while they get their feature to shout some bullshit. First three tracks are good, and it doesn't come back until Delirium. Every Gorillaz album you take the 2-3 songs that are decent and throw the other 10-15 away
So many demon days tourists here
>>129578044according to self-unaware partisan hacks
>>129578284maybe you don't understand spanish you little minded amerimutt
>>129578385I don't speak Spanish and there's no reason for you to expect me to. I don't mind foreign language music. I put Damascus and The Shadowy Lie up pretty high but ignored that because it wasn't convenient to your victim complex. I listen to entire Natalia Lafourcade albums and I've been a fan of Gorillaz for two decades and yes I AM a PROUD racist you irrelevant spic and or nigger.
agreed that it's the best since plastic beach. glad to see damon albarn is still exploring new ground as an artist with the traditional indian music influence & spiritual themes & all. last few albums really just felt like tired & half paked pop whatevers. this one has proper tunes (the happy dictator& irange county stick out as solid melodies) & some surprising faces turn up in the features. i dig the full exploration of the eastern influence on tracks like the shadowy light & the sweet prince. overall it's a bit meandering without strong peaks though & doesn't hit on the theatricality of the plastic beach to the same degree. feels like a "late career 'world music' turn" that would've been commonplace in the 90s if i'm not making that meme up, not particularly groundbreaking but not bad. could see myself giving this one more repeat listens than the rest of their recent output which i just find flat basically. i like damon's newer solo stuff a bit better.
>>129578288I'm surprised to see The God of Lying get such a mixed reception, the last thread brought out a lot of detractors as well. I guess it's a slog in terms of pacing but it's a moody, psychedelic slog. I actually really like it, and I think you're on to something with the loose self-titled association. It's a bit too Song Machine to pull it off completely, but at the same time I could see it sitting next to stuff like Starshine or Slow Country.
>>129570648bruh this is literally a hip hop band and muh ""muh black suffering"" is actual real heartful shit to sing out. what "white themes" did you want them to sing about? oh noo my mayo is tooo spicy. stay away from art if you're gonna have this 2 dimensional of a worldview nigga
>>129578474It's not bad but it sounds like the result of some music theory youtuber trying to make their own Gorillaz song. That first IDLES verse is good but the Damon parts feel like very old territory
Just got the Deluxe Version with a second CD. Has an exclusive version of The Mountain by Hindu Jea Band. Too upbeat for the actual album but catchy
>>129571984Kill every leftshit
the mountain sad so the mountain cry
>>129577968This dudes music is boring
>>129578284I'm shocked at how I love the album but am lukewarm on shadowy light yet almost everyone who is lukewarm on the album loves the shadowy light. It's a tad repetitive for me. I enjoy empty dream machine, but yeah damons vocals are weird, the production on his voice is weird on the whole record. Sad God is good but black thoughts verse is weird and the usage of the word incel takkes me out of whats supposed to be an emotional closing track, honestly sweet prince would have been a fine closer. Casablanca grew on me, I love Damons delivery on "i dont know anything that feels like this" it feels very the good the bad and the queen. I love the fall so delirium is really fun to listen to for me. I really like the manifesto, fun instrumental, i dont dig that style of music but truenos verses are good and i like the lyrics.
Happy 16th, Plastic Beach.
>>129572953They're typical grandstanding bourgeois westoids who virtue-signal from the safety of their high-net-worth lifestyles
Also btw the album is mid af Wouldn't waste time relistening
Album is peak i'm relistening right now
The Sweet Prince to the Sad God felt like being punched in the gut and then have your nuts being drilled while you get your eyes salted
>>129571984>in the right side of history
i want to have sex with noodle
not really feeling it. only track i like is damascus and it would better with just the arab parts. maybe it's the arab in me.
The mountain, it is high, yeah, the mountain's sad so the mountain cry. :)
I'm having a blast with this absolute gem of an album!
>>129581242:')
>>129569946Nowhere near. It kind of sucks, majority of the tracks just have shit beats that don’t compliment the lyrics. Only good songs I say would be The Happy Dictator, Orange County and The Moon Cave. Whole album feels like Damon just took El Mañana and turned it into an album.
>>129581518>Whole album feels like Damon just took El Mañana and turned it into an album.God, I wish this album were that good.
>>129569946No lie, as I laid down and listened, I fell into a deep trance, not asleep but no longer aware of my surroundings. It was so tranquil and relaxed it felt like being in the deepest sleep, yet still aware. By the last track I was dreaming and listening at the same time. It was so beautiful I almost cried. 10/10 album. You know how theres rumors/myths of music that has some sort of curse placed on them? I think this album is imbued with some sort of sorcery or magic, like a blessing that provides deep sense of wellbeing and peace. It really took me to a place of such intense calmness, I've never had music impact me in such a way.
>>129570648I hope all the lyrics in their next album are only the word nigger and every track is called nigger. They would be goated in my eyes.
to the moooon caaavveeee
After a few good listens I think this is my loose feeling. Casablanca really is "just there" to me, but if that's as bad as it gets then it's doing pretty good.
>Damon when he hears Black Thought rhyme paradise with pair of dice
>>129585763
i like this album but theres obvious filler esp in the second half
It's so sad because I think they really had so much fun making this album and attached a lot of meaning to it plus we got this 8 minute short animated movie, which is literally so kino but overall, it's a pretty mid album. Even before the release, I didn’t like most of the singles. The Manifesto was nice though, and I like The Mountain it’s such a great instrumental to open the movie. The Moon Cave is cool too, and I love Casablanca because it's kind of soothing, and I enjoy that type of music.It's crazy to say that this is actually my least listened to Gorillaz project of all time like even just Cracker Island was way better in every shape of form with so many different great songs idk that one is just bad imo
>>129572953>all those leftists are all hardcore expansionist and supporting whatever war the nato is in. they have been conditioned since early age to bring "justice" in the worldmeanwhile in reality, the pedophile in chief just bombed iran after kidnapping the leader of venezuela
>>129570648>noooo gorillaz should be based and racist like ME
>listening to moon cave>pretty good>suddenly right in the middle of the song a nigger starts rappingFUCK, ENOUGH WITH THE NIGGERS DAMON! i will only accept niggerbable if De La Soul is singing, nobody else!
>>129588046Gorillaz has been on this shit from the jump, 25 years ago. Even before De La Soul got involved with them, what about Del the Funkee Homosapien or Phi Life Cypher?
>>129588046>>129588102also trugoy is literally sampled in the rap section on that song
>>129588046This is my issues with modern Gorillaz we all want 2D to sing man.
>the only track I liked is Damascus>turns out it was recorded in 2010 and was supposed to be released as part of plastic beachWho tf sits on a song for 15 years?
>>129588046Trvke. Even back during demon days I felt the rap ruined the songs with the exception of feel good and date. Dirty Harry especially goes from a 10/10 to a -100 once the rap kicks in. Feels like randomly being hit it the face by a brick mid song. Their newer albums also suffer more because modern raps just aren’t as good as 90s and early 2000s rappers.
>>129569946Buy an ad faggot
>>129574198>i listened 3 times its starting to clickTranslation: I'm forcing myself to "like" this so I can fit in.Kys retard>>129572966>any band having a mascot and making the mascot center of attention is literal music for preteens or youngerThis. It's music for fucking toddlers. Is the average/mu/tant 12 years old these days?
>>129589632>Who tf sits on a song for 15 years?Radiohead.
>>129589655I'm not much of a rap guy but of all the songs you choose to shit on, you choose fucking Dirty Harry? That's one of Gorillaz' absolute best rap features.
>>129589655Bootie Browns verse is the best of that song.
>first time listening to The Happy Dictator>meh>second time >ok guess it's kinda alright>third time>nooooo mooore baad neews
>>129590482That's a lot of Gorillaz songs in general.
Ok so I know most people are like there’s nothing to discuss, the project is just mid overall or whatever but I think it’s worth saying this might be the most unique Gorillaz album in the way that there’s a weird mismatch, a kind of gap, artistically this might honestly be their best project ever. Props to Jamie, all the artworks are hella dope and the movie is so great. Really hope they eventually make a full length Gorillaz movie.But on the other hand it’s clearly their worst project musically. I agree with two comments I’ve seen here completely fuck with them, some songs become good if you cut them properly. For example, The Empty Dream Machine remove the trash rap verse and the song is actually good. And yeah the other one would be that there are probably only like four good songs max on the whole project
>>129590981>their worst project musicallyNah, this is at least better than Humanz and Cracker Island.
Post-Hiatus Gorillaz has some really uninspired production, everything is so glossy and poppy, I really like song machine but that record had that same glossy production that makes everything sound artificial and lifeless, it lacks the grit that the original three albums had.
>>129591163I can agree with this, though at least this one seems to try and sound as grand as Plastic Beach. Try, anyways. But I listened to Demon Days the other day and couldn't imagine a song as raw as O Green World or White Light coming from these guys now.
>>129591215The production has been my biggest gripe with the new album, the vocals sound so processed. Plastic Beach was lush but had moments with some edge as well, there's nothing on this album that matches the gritty synths of stylo or glitter freeze.
>>129591118Ok, I know music is subjective, blah blah blah. Don’t get me wrong, it’s more of a hyperbole here The Fall and D-Sides are obviously still worse imo. But that being said, I think you get the idea it’s hella bottom tier to me and to others too.Also, please explain to me how this is musically better than the two projects you mentioned? Humanz has straight-up bangers in it literally Andromeda and Saturnz Barz clears I’m not gonna argue that much though, because we can all clearly agree that Humanz is pretty mid overall and bottom tier, but to me this new one is kinda similar. I’d rank them about the same.But I will never ever understand the hate for Cracker Island. That album is literally great. I personally removed Possession Island, Tormenta, and New Gold, meaning 7 songs out of 10 are still so great and I listen to them to this day. The deluxe version is whatever though like didn't liked any song that I can recall but yeah, it’s literally a great Gorillaz album like what
>>129591260>D-Sides>worseI can't even keep reading this. Disc 1 clears some of their proper albums.
>>129591260Cracker Island is just way too poppy for my taste, also possession island and new gold are great? Tired Influencer is a snooze fest, I like Damon but he seriously gives off massive boomer energy whenever he tries to do commentary on modern culture. Oil is catchy but a total waste of a feature, Tarantula is fun, I despise Skinny Ape, such a stupid song.
>>129591277Well lad I will not argue with you if that's your opinion it's ok I will not judge people who puts Humanz on the top, like every fan can make and have a different tier lists and it's fine I just genuinely think that Humanz is musically mid just like The Mountain I would still put it a tiny bit lower but well just my opinion here.>>129591287I hate that one bad bunny song it's trash imo, New Gold is too repetitive I just don't like it, we can agree maybe that possession island is more of an outro song I like the instrumental but that's about it the rest of the album is straight up a fucking banger to me, I said nothing about skinny ape because I don’t know if you remember this, but it wasn’t even officially released they just played it live at a concert I believe a month or so before the album releases kinda as an exclusive and I found it to be really random and fun it’s not really my cup of tea either the first time I was like what is that, but I still listen to it because I remember that live moment and how fun it was.
>>129591372Cracker Island is the Gorillaz album that I forget even happened. It's the one I have no real feelings on at all. Like, Humanz is bad, The Fall is boring, The Now Now is competent but one-note, Song Machine is interesting but unfocused, etc. And I feel my share about The Mountain already - it's spiritually and existentially focused, but not really all that novel or even "fun" to listen to despite its joyful moments. But Cracker Island is an album that I can't assign any thoughts to. I cannot muster up enough interest in anything that album did to have any real opinion on it. It's one of the albums of all time, I guess.
>People like DeliriumHow?
>>129569946Why did they INDIAMAXX?
>>129592324goes hard
It feels extremely corny to say my favorite track is Orange County but the more I listen to this album the harder it becomes to deny it
Went to bed with my earphones on, woke up in the middle of the night with the album still playing. Listened to the whole thing in that half-asleep state and legit had a near transcendental experience. Can't believe some anons are unironically putting shit like The Now Now and Cracker Island over it. This is a major work.
Which one of you did this
>>129592858Dude. I love you so much you posted this and out of curiosity I went to check and that guy also uploaded The Empty Dream Machine I can literally now enjoy a great song in peace not a fan of the album but that one is good also I love how Casablanca and The Sweet Prince follows in the tracklist those 2 tracks are actually so underrated
>>129592324>he doesn't like Mark E. Smith
>>129592570I'm so mixed on Orange County. The sentiment is like Empire Ants levels of beautiful but the actual tune is one of the most forgettable on the album. It's the kind of song I'd seek out a week after I attended the funeral of a family member but never any other time.>>129593131The Empty Dream Machine needs the rap part because it's the only part of that entire song that has a pulse. It needs the contrast for as long as it goes on, it's the glue that keeps it together.
This album is closer to what I thought Plastic Beach was gonna be, which I still love, but I was immediately disappointed by it. All of the Plastic Beach indents made the album seem like it was gonna be more experimental than it was gonna be. https://youtu.be/03h617sLB-E?si=hk838mDkN8djgt95
>>129593315How would you rate the album overall?
>>129593131The only part of empty dream machine i'd cut is that ending bit with damon and the woman going back and forth, way too repetitive and doesn't really add anything to the track.
>>129593383>that ending bit with damon and the woman going back and forthliterally the best part of the song smdh
>>129593409Damons voice sounds stupid auto-tuned
>>129593420True. I get what he's going for but it's not a good compliment for his particular voice.
>>129570648I heard somewhere that chuds obsess over the word nigger like redditors do with "pupper" and this post is a perfect example of that obsession
Is there a shilling campaign going on for this album or something? What would you call this type of music anyways? Kid-core?
>>129593940>Is there a shilling campaign going on for this album or something?No, it's a new Gorillaz album. You should've been here when Plastic Beach was new, it left the board fucking unusable for like 2 weeks. Proof that this place is utterly dead compared to 15+ years ago.
>>129570648Damon thinks he can save the world with his music or some shit.
>>129593983As does most every musician who doesn't do it for money.
>>129593980>NoI highly doubt this shit is organic >>129593996. Was probably a shill campaign back then too.
>>129593940>>129594023>obvious hate campaign Blur mogs Oasis brother get over it it's been 30 years
>>129569946Boring background music slop, nothing that sticks out, people comparing it to Plastic Beach have lost the plot, nothing on this album comes even close to Melancholy Hill.
>>129594086Plastic Beach sucks.
>>129594086On Melancholy Hill is so fucking overrated. Plastic Beach has great tracks but I've never understood the adoration for that one.
>>129594066>one person is a hate campaign Also not whoever you're referring to. I think blur and oasis are shit.
>>129594157>a few anons on a dead board is a shilling campaign
can Fantano give this a 7/10 already
>>129594180You should see it over on reddit. They probably sent one over here for good measure.
>>129594128>my favorite song on plastic beach is the least popular one!ok poser
>>129594266What would that even be? Sweepstakes? Whatever, Broken's the best song on the album. They were on to something as far back as the pre-release demo.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_bcwM06_qE
>>129594194No, now here's a 40 minute "interview" with Damon, because apparently that exists.https://youtu.be/sESy2k_h_d8?si=JNuc4n33c9m7gdTG
>>129592570oddly enough, when i heard it my thought was basically "this is pretty catchy but kind of mid and uninspired, i could see myself finding it kind of annoying" -- but it ended up being the only one that kept getting stuck in my head of all the album after only a listen or two
>song has good intro>catchy beat >good lyrics>great singing>ruined by godawful rap featureah yes the gorillaz classic recipe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJaC8Bx-ZdcLight 8He didn't like The Sweet Prince
>>129591163I think this is absolutely true but I also feel like The Mountain might be the only modern Gorillaz album that actually makes use of that gloss. It feels like an alternate universe, one that I can truly see the Gorillaz in. It's cinematic in a way, hard to describe, but it feels way more consistent than the other recent releases.
