Sunday, January 9, 2011
Gorillaz New Album - The Fall [Rolling Stone Magz]
Recorded on tour, on an iPad, and comprised of songs with titles like "Shy-town" and "Seattle Yodel," this zonked addendum to Gorillaz' excellent Plastic Beach (streaming for free on their website) is the sound of Damon Albarn blowing trees and tweaking apps as the American outback rolls by his bus window. It's a wistfully spaced-out, subtly cheeky spin on the Lost In America road epic, Easy Ridervia Tron — from the country-radio sampling apocalypse dub of "The Parish of Space Dust," to the rust-belting planet-rock of "Detroit," to the gorgeous "Bobby in Phoenix," a sermon on human emotions from soul great Bobby Womack, set against the sweetest blips Steve Jobs' Etch A Sketch could ever birth.
