Damon Albarn’s earnest, schmaltzy Cracker Island is restless enough to work.
to “El Mañana” from Gorillaz’schallenges these tendencies in the same way Gorillaz was meant to pull away from the Britpop box Blur felt trapped in when the band started making the racket that led to “Song 2.”that Albarn sings by himself tend to muse on how to live with loneliness and the drift that pulls friendships apart.
Thundercat records evoke, and the forlorn psych of Tame are great mates for the disarmingly bubbly depresso disco and the New Wave gloom that populatesentertains as an exercise in giving a synth auteur access to the best and juiciest Yamaha keyboards from the ’80s and a producer equally at ease working with Beck and the Jonas Brothers. It is Albarn’s most overt pop-star play.
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