Gorillaz - Plastic Beach (2010)


Recommended Posts

Yep, this is a brilliant album. I've been listening to it non stop for the past couple of weeks - I can't get enough of it. I seem to have a new favourite song each week. First it was Superfast Jellyfish, then On Melancholy Hill. Right now it's Cloud of Unknowing and Pirate Jet.

Stylo, On Melancholy Hill, Empire Ants and Superfast Jellyfish are very good songs. The rest are ok. Have to agree though, probably is the best album of the year so far.

go listen to bonobo's new album - black sands. Best album of the year. For sure. This Gorillaz album is subpar so far.

one of the most worse CD I had heared this year. By far their worse work. Seems like Damon was forced to release something before the ppl forget about them. Blur would make it better?. Dont think so...

Can't argue with an opinion :p

But what made you not like this one, too trance/ambient?

I've given the album a few listens over the past couple of days and i definitely like it, didn't blow me way though.

Stylo and Superfast Jellyfish stand out for me. Damon Albarn's delivery annoys me a bit on Rhinestone Eyes, so can't really get into that song.

  • 2 weeks later...

well, I bought this cd about a week ago and just now got around to listening to it. I'm on "On Melancholy Hill" right now and this is the first song I've actually liked. This album is a huge disappointment for me. Guess I should have pirated it first like I usually do :(

Plastic Beach I feel spends to much time trying to get other artists out of their comfort zones. I mainly listen to The Gorillaz due to Damon Albarn's vocals. I love his sound. And I feel like plastic beach is severely lacking his vocals. A lot of the songs on the new album feel incomplete. I wouldn't say it was rushed I would say they just didn't know how to finish what they started.

Demon Days for me is one of the best albums I've ever heard and it was always going to be difficult for them to follow that album. Either by releasing something considered worse or something that is identical and thus not ground breaking. But even so I think Plastic Beach although a decent album is not great and I think if they had of been a little more conservative and took a step back to put more of themselves in to the songs instead of so many other artists that it would have turned out better.

Just my humble opinion as a Gorillaz fan :)

This topic is now closed to further replies.
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
  • Posts

    • The possibility that milk gathers back into a glass implies that gravity can be 'reversed'.
    • VidCoder 12.20 by Razvan Serea  VidCoder is a DVD/Blu-ray ripping and video transcoding application for Windows. It uses HandBrake as its encoding engine. Calling directly into the HandBrake library gives it a more rich UI than the official HandBrake Windows GUI. VidCoder can rip DVDs but does not defeat the CSS encryption found in most commercial DVDs. You’ll need the NET 8 Desktop Runtime. If you don’t have it, VidCoder will prompt you to download and install it. The Portable version is self-contained and does not require any .NET Runtime to be installed. You do not need to install HandBrake for VidCoder to work. Feature list: Multi-threaded MP4, MKV containers Completely integrated encoding pipeline: everything is in one process and no huge intermediate temporary files H.264, H.265, MPEG-4, MPEG-2, VP8, Theora video Hardware-accelerated encoding with AMD VCE, Nvidia NVENC and Intel QuickSync AAC, MP3, Vorbis, AC3, FLAC audio encoding and AAC/AC3/MP3/DTS/DTS-HD passthrough Target bitrate, size or quality for video 2-pass encoding Decomb, detelecine, deinterlace, rotate, reflect, chroma smooth, colorspace filters Powerful batch encoding with simultaneous encodes Customizable Pickers to automatically pick audio and subtitle tracks, destination, titles and more Instant source previews Creates small encoded preview clips Pause, resume encoding VidCoder 12.20 changes: Updated HandBrake core to 1.11.2. Download: VidCoder 12.20 | 47.0 MB (Open Source) Download: Portable VidCoder 12.19 | 89.3 MB Link: VidCoder Home Page | Github | Screenshot Get alerted to all of our Software updates on Twitter at @NeowinSoftware
    • Too soon, I'm still not over this death!
    • Normally, I admit when a title is clickbait (unfortunately, it's become somewhat necessary to compete against AI-dominated news sections today), but in this case, all supported versions is implied and doesn't need to be spelled out in the title. Of course, I'm covering a Patch Tuesday update bug that is only available to supported Windows SKUs. All our coverage relates to supported Windows software and SKUs only unless we expressly state that it's "unsupported", "unofficial", or "third-party". I'm sorry, but supported/official SKUs don't need to be spelled out as such in every Neowin headline.
  • Recent Achievements

    • Week One Done
      Jordan Smith earned a badge
      Week One Done
    • Reacting Well
      BizSAR earned a badge
      Reacting Well
    • First Post
      AndreaB earned a badge
      First Post
    • Week One Done
      Huge Trailer earned a badge
      Week One Done
    • Week One Done
      Classifyskilleducation earned a badge
      Week One Done
  • Popular Contributors

    1. 1
      +primortal
      593
    2. 2
      +Edouard
      185
    3. 3
      PsYcHoKiLLa
      77
    4. 4
      Michael Scrip
      73
    5. 5
      Steven P.
      66
  • Tell a friend

    Love Neowin? Tell a friend!