Plastic Beach

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This isn’t a huge deal to me, but it’s still false advertising to show the afternoon cover and then deliver the daytime one. Plastic Beach received generally positive reviews from critics; it holds an aggregate score of 77 out of 100 at Metacritic.

On 14 January 2009, Damon Albarn appeared on BBC Radio 1 with animated bass player Murdoc Niccals, and played a selection of songs including four demos for Plastic Beach: "Electric Shock", which features Derby-based Orchestra sinfonia ViVA (a song which does not appear on the album, although certain elements of it were used in " Rhinestone Eyes"), the demo for " Stylo" (which was named "Binge" at that point) and the demo for "Broken". Writing for MSN Music, Robert Christgau singled out "Some Kind of Nature" and "Superfast Jellyfish" as "choice cuts", [67] indicating good songs on an album that he felt was otherwise unworthy of listeners' money or time. There's many stories, told around a bigger story, set to music, and done in live action, animation, all different styles, well.Superfast Jellyfish" contains samples from the Swanson advertisement for frozen breakfast sandwiches and an episode of Natural World, "Sperm Whales: Back from the Abyss", narrated by David Attenborough.

We've started work– I've done a lot of visuals and Damon's done a lot of music but we haven't figured out how they're going to fit together. As it turned out, Humperdinck's manager had listened to the proposed selection and declined the offer for him without his knowing.The band have taken up residence, recording on a secret floating island deep in the South Pacific, a Plastic Beach HQ, made up of the detritus, debris and washed up remnants of humanity.

A new picture of the band was published on 9 December 2009 on the cover of the UK edition of Wired magazine. After reading all of these overwhelmingly positive reviews, my hopes were through the roof upon my first play - though this pressing still managed to blow me away! Please help improve the article by presenting facts as a neutrally worded summary with appropriate citations.This Plastic Beach is the furthest point from any landmass on Earth; the most deserted spot on the planet. A crew member rushes over to cabin 13 to warn a passenger, who is revealed to be Noodle (wearing the oni mask), that the cruise is under attack by pirates and he was told to escort her to the lifeboats. Optimal Media Production and MK are not directly credited but have been identified via their stamping in the vinyl runout area. Albarn said in an interview, "I'm making this one the most pop record I've ever made in many ways, but with all my experience to try and at least present something that has got depth. AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine said the album's success depends on Albarn's growth as a composer: "he's a master of subtly shifting moods and intricately threaded allusions, often creating richly detailed collages that are miniature marvels.

British garage rock band The Horrors were invited to play on the album after Albarn heard their 2009 album Primary Colours. In a July 2008 interview with The Observer he also said, "Gorillaz now to us is not like four animated characters any more– it's more like an organisation of people doing new projects .

On 14 January 2010, Albarn made an appearance as a guest DJ on BBC Radio 1, premiering demos of three new Gorillaz songs– "Electric Shock", "Broken" and "Stylo". It was released on 3 March 2010 by Parlophone internationally and by Virgin Records in the United States. There are a couple of songs that are a little sibilant here and there, Snoops voice on the opener for example but apart from this it sounds really good.