It’s a taut, if melancholy creation, every hook latching onto the listener, from the zipping bass synths to the intermittent choral harmonies.Ģ. It was that or ‘Millennium’ and that’s a shit name for a song.” Agreed, but don’t tell Robbie Williams.įrom ‘Demon Days’, ‘DARE’ is Gorillaz’s only chart-topping single, although it’s sold less overall than the album’s other big-hitter, ‘Feel Good Inc’ The video sees Shaun Ryder’s giant cyborg-ified head dominating a tiny room, and the effect he has on the track is much the same. ’19-2000′ was written to mark the Millennium, and on the name, fictional bassist Murdoc says, “19-2000 fitted the bill. Here, getting the “ cool shoeshine” doesn’t sound that great, although on the Soulchild remix, which brought the single to a much wider audience, it really does. But as the third single from their 2005 album, ‘Demon Days’, it’s also just a banging tune. “ I need a gun to keep myself from harm,” sing children in this song, which as a whole (including its title) is understood to be an attack on President George W Bush. “It’s that feeling,” the band’s fictional bassist Murdoc Niccals has said, “that place that you get in your soul sometimes, like someone’s let your tyres down.” If anything Gorillaz have created is approaching true beauty, this is it.
What’s not great about a low-slung beat, downcast bassline and weary harmonica? This cut from the band’s debut is like hitchhiking way into a grimy space western – 10 years before Django Django headed in the same direction in the Beach Boys’ squeaky-clean camper van.Īnother from ‘Plastic Beach’, ‘On Melancholy Hill’ is at the bitter end of bittersweet, despite the carefree prancing of its synths. If that wasn’t enough, the video is a desert-based car chase featuring Bruce Willis. And it’s their contributions that make it shine, particularly Womack, the sound of whose inimitable howl is a Gorillaz first.
One of the best things from 2010’s ‘Plastic Beach’ is this moody, synth-led track featuring Brooklyn rapper Mos Def and soul legend Bobby Womack. But that flute will stick around in your head for days.
Del Tha Funkee Homosapien)ĭel Tha Funkee Homosapien is the best thing about this track – other than its sample, from John Forté’s smooth jam ‘How Many People (Ready To Rock the House?)’. The drums may well be the best thing about it, despite oozing personality from unpredictable synths, tongue-in-cheek rappers De La Soul and its cheery chorus-singer, Super Furry Animals frontman Gruff Rhys.ĩ. It’s ostensibly about cereal, and it’s brilliant. Names can be misleading – like so much Gorillaz material, ‘Superfast Jellyfish’ has a decidedly slowed-down, hip-hop beat. The same sing-song spoken cadence as ‘Feel Good Inc’ doesn’t quite come off here on ‘Rhinestone Eyes’, whose droopy, squalling synths seem to casually foretell nuclear armageddon.ġ0. This 2002 Spacemonkeyz remix of Gorillaz’s ‘M1A1’ is a weird reggae-Gorillaz fusion track – drawn from ‘Laika Come Home’, their reggae and dub-remix LP of Gorillaz’s self-titled debut. Hints to what the new LP sounds like are few and far between, but Albarn has said “It’s really fast, and it’s got quite a lot of energy.” While we wait for their next release (penned for later this year) there’s plenty of Gorillaz goodness to look back on – here are all of their singles so far, ranked in order of greatness. Their last was 2011’s ‘The Fall’, recorded on an iPad during the tour for 2010’s ‘Plastic Beach’. The fictional animated quartet – created by artist Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn – have just released another four new tracks from their forthcoming album.
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