REVIEW: sanbenito, beck, and StevieNicks are among the guests on the new gorillaz album ‘Cracker Island,” a record that feels more easygoing and less overstuffed than anything they’ve ever done.
project, in which every track was accompanied by at least one guest and a new cartoon detailing the band’s ongoing dystopian adventures, turned both dials to 11. Every track was a single, bursting with set pieces and pivots; it all “worked,” but it was a lot to take in, like a 12-course dinner composed of all entrées. One can only eat so much lobster. before being reworked as a traditional album — turns both dials to a comfortable middle setting and cruises.
It’s the easiest-going and most purely pleasurable Gorillaz album since their opening one-two punch, 20-some years ago. Guests feel purposeful, filtered into the indie-funk melange with ease.gets to uncork some walking bass lines over a Daft Punk-worthy mirrorball groove, and Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker trades verses with the Pharcyde’s Bootie Brown on a synth-pop scorcher that’d be at home on, well, a Tame Impala record.
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