The album repeatedly stalls before it ever has a chance to really take off.
Throughout, Damon Albarn effectively weaves together his guests’ ostensibly disparate styles.
Albarn decisively enters his old-man phase, delivering a depressive jeremiad on the sorry state of our tech-obsessed culture.
The Fall is a love letter to—and a journey into—the heart of America.
“Doncamatic” is a far cry from Plastic Beach’s grandiose kitchen-sink arrangements.
This is an album where the mind-boggling and the mind-blowing are wall to wall.
Until then, there’s plenty to savour from this terrific foretaste: a melancholic thumper, perhaps 2010’s strongest single so far.
If cartoons truly are a reflection of the times, then Gorillaz are unabashedly 2005.
Not bad for a band that doesn’t even exist.