Demon Days (CD)

The return of the worlds favourite virtual band with their second album ‘Demon Days’. Produced by Dangermouse, the album also features contributions from De La Soul, Neneh Cherry, Martina Topley-Bird, Roots Manuva, MF Doom, Ike Turner, Bootie Brown of the Pharcyde, Shaun Ryder & Dennis Hopper!.

Life is funny innit. Blur release the truly remarkable "Think Tank" album to universal indifference, yet the first Gorillaz album - little more than throwaway jokes - hits big and becomes Damon Albarn's biggest album ever (mind you, if people had have known it was him to start with maybe they wouldn't have bought it anyway...) So a funny thing happened on the way to making album number 2 - an album they never expected to be making - they got good! Damon decided to push the laidback hip hop groove he had worked up on "Think Tank" (esp on tracks like "Ambulance") and take it to it's logical conclusion. So heavy on the collaborations - Neneh Cherry, De La Soul, MF Doom, Roots Manuva, Shaun Ryder, Dennis Hopper even! - and even heavier on the experimentalism