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Back to: Archive · 2001 Gorillaz' single 'Clint Eastwood' reviewed From the NME, 3 March 2001. The title presumably a nod to '70s dub reggae records, this Damon Albarn side project - in cahoots with such blue chip Bohemian hip-hop names as Dan The Automator and Del Tha Funky Homosapien - is just too much to take for some people. The melodica, the looseness, the talk of Africa - how dare he expect to get away with it? Answer: by getting Ed Case to do a garage mix which hauls it down the dancefloor of Twice As Nice, where all the disparate elements fall into place and the jarring culture clash suddenly makes perfect sense. A little shift in perspective and, suddenly, you've got a west London Basement Jaxx, embodying a more interesting - and accurate - vision of England than anything Blur dared to attempt. |