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Track Listing
1. Intro
2. Last Living Souls
3. Kids With Guns
4. O Green World
5. Dirty Harry
6. Feel Good Inc.
7. El Manana
8. Every Planet We Reach Is Dead
9. November Has Come
10. All Alone
11. White Light
12. Dare
13. Fire Coming Out of a Monkey's Head
14. Don't Get Lost in Heaven
15. Demon Days
Album Notes
Additional personnel: Martina Topley-Bird, Neneh Cherry, The London Community Gospel Choir, Children's Choir San Fernandez (vocals); Dennis Hopper (spoken vocals); Simon Tong (guitar); Sally Jackson , Prabjote Osahn (violin); Stella Page, Amanda Drummond (viola); Isabelle Dunn (cello); Ike Turner (piano); Al Mobbs, Emma Smith (double bass); Rosie Wilson (background vocals); MF Doom, Roots Manuva, Shaun Ryder, Bootie Brown.
Recording information: 2003 - 2005.
On the second full-length Gorillaz outing, DEMON DAYS, mastermind Damon Albarn (Blur) parts company with Dan the Automator and opts for a collaboration with Danger Mouse, the DJ most renowned for his GREY ALBUM mash-up of the Beatles' WHITE ALBUM and Jay-Z's BLACK ALBUM. Although this dynamic collection isn't a radical departure from its predecessor (Artwork by Jamie Hewlett? Check. A small army of guest stars? Check.), DEMON DAYS injects the party-ready Gorillaz aesthetic with a brooding sensibility that's immediately apparent on the zombie-movie-sampling "Intro." In fact, a morbid sentiment abounds, as evidenced by many songs, including "Last Living Souls" and "Every Planet We Reach Is Dead."
Even though Albarn has weighty issues occupying his thoughts, he hasn't forgotten how to boogie, as revealed by the slinky "Kids with Guns" (featuring backing vocals by Neneh Cherry) and the funky "Feel Good Inc." (with De La Soul), which sounds like the slacker cousin of Outkast's "Hey Ya!" The ominous "November Has Come" (featuring MF Doom) and the bizarre "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head" (with a spoken-word performance by actor Dennis Hopper) round out this eclectic pop/rock/hip-hop offering, which equals, if not exceeds, the first Gorillaz disc.
Industry Reviews
4 stars out of 5 - Dazzlingly clever - great beats, brilliant production, top tunes and some of Albarn's best singing...
Albarn still has great taste in other people's music. His new accomplice, copyright pirate Danger Mouse, fills in suggestively dubby spaces with choirs, staggering synths, and MCs ranging from De La Soul to Roots Manuva to MF Doom. - Grade: B
[This] follow-up is spookier, blippier, and more on edge... - Grade: B
[A]s original - and just as much fun - as the first.
...an immensely absorbable experience with plenty of rhymes and funked-out marching beats to bite into...
Ranked #18 in Mojo's The 50 Best Albums Of 2005 - [A] genre-busting, contemporary pop milestone.
Ranked #4 in Spin's 40 Best Albums Of 2005 - [A] vivid, spastic concept album about the last primates to survive the apocalypse.
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