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Back to: Archive · 2005 'Demon Days' reviewed From Mojo, June 2005. Review by Danny Eccleston. A collaboration with the cult cartoonist Jamie Hewlett (of Tank Girl infamy) and producer Dan Nakamura, conceived as an outlet for Damon Albarn's dabblings in the non-Blur world of hip hop and kitchen-sink R&B, Gorillaz sold six million copies of their 2001 debut to become something more than a hobby band. On Demon Days, Albarn's generic cross-pollination has bedded in nicely - allowing (on All Alone) a blubbery, boggling beat, a typically eccentric Roots Manuva rap and Martina Topley-Bird's angelic pipes to co-exist in perfect symbiosis. The result is an aural phantasmagoria - funky, playful but sinister like the best children's stories - soundtracking Albarn's vision of a crumbling, exploited world where zombified "kids with guns" hold sway from North Hulme to Sierra Leone and dead-eyed multi-nationals rape an ancient culture in a lysergic parable brilliantly narrated by Dennis Hopper. Quite astonishing. Rating: 4 out of 5. |