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Plastic Beach [PA] by Gorillaz (CD, 2010)

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Artist: Gorillaz - Title: Plastic Beach - Format: CD - Country: USA - Label: Virgin - Catalogue Number: 5099962754729 - Year: 2010 - Description: 16 track CD with insert in gatefold card sleeve.

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Product Identifiers

Producer
Gorillaz
Record Label
EMI
UPC
5099962754729
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15050131376

Product Key Features

Artist
Mark E. Smith, Mick Jones, Bobby Womack, Bashy, De La Soul, Gorillaz, Gruff Rhys, Kano, Little Dragon, Snoop Dogg, Paul Simonon, Mos Def, Lou Reed
Format
CD
Release Year
2010
Release Title
Plastic Beach [PA]
Run Time
56 mins 46 seconds
Genre
Alternative, Rock

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Additional information
Personnel: Stephen Sedgwick (programming). Audio Mixer: Jason Cox. Recording information: Al Assad, Damascus, Syria (06/2008-11/2009); Capitol Studios, Hollywood, CA (06/2008-11/2009); Chung King Studios, NY (06/2008-11/2009); Devon (06/2008-11/2009); Rolls Royce Factory, Derby, UK (06/2008-11/2009); Studio 13 (06/2008-11/2009); The Shrine, Lagos, Nigeria (06/2008-11/2009); Veolia Environmental Services Pitsea Landfill Site (06/2008-11/2009). Gorillaz began as a lark but turned serious once it became Damon Albarn's primary creative outlet following the slow dissolve of Blur. Delivered five years after the delicate whimsical melancholy of 2005's Demon Days, Plastic Beach is an explicit sequel to its predecessor, its story line roughly picking up in the dystopian future where the last album left off, its music offering a grand, big-budget expansion of Demon Days, spinning off its cameo-crammed blueprint. Traces of Albarn's Monkey opera can be heard, particularly in the hypnotic Mideastern pulse of "White Flag," but Damon's painstaking pancultural pop junk-mining no longer surprises -- when hip-hop juts up against Brit-pop, it's expected -- yet it still has the capacity to delight no matter which direction the Gorillaz may swing. Lou Reed's crotchety croak on "Some Kind of Nature" has the same kind of gravitational pull as Mos Def leading the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble through the intensely circling "Sweepstakes," while the group reaches new heights of sparkling pop on "Superfast Jellyfish," aided by the return of De La Soul -- the rappers who propelled "Feel Good Inc." -- and an appearance from Gruff Rhys, the Super Furry Animals frontman who is an ideal fit for Gorillaz (possibly because SFA's genre-bending pop and Pete Fowler artwork clearly paved the way for Albarn and Jamie Hewlett's collaboration). A common thread among all these tracks is that they find Albarn ceding the spotlight to his fellow musicians, preferring to be the puppetmaster behind the curtain, and Plastic Beach works best when he's the composer and producer, finding hidden strengths within his guests -- having Mick Jones and Paul Simonon for the elastic title track, coaxing some powerful performances out of Bobby Womack -- but often when Albarn takes center stage his laconic drawl lets the air out of the balloon. Curiously, much of this arrives toward the beginning of the album, the record gaining momentum as it unspools, working toward its climax, but the overall album accentuates moody texture over pop hooks. This emphasis means Plastic Beach is the first Gorillaz album to play like a soundtrack to a cartoon -- which isn't entirely a bad thing, because as Albarn grows as a composer, he's a master of subtly shifting moods and intricately threaded allusions, often creating richly detailed collages that are miniature marvels. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Reviews
Rolling Stone (pp.61-62) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "PLASTIC BEACH, Gorillaz's third excellent album in a row, is all Albarn -- he writes the tunes, produces, sings, plays most of the music and gets people on the phone for left-field cameos..." Spin (p.88) - "Albarn's love of 'Waterloo Sunset' poignancy adds emotional weight..." Entertainment Weekly (p.68) - "Womack brings an organic jolt to the mentholated Casio cool of 'Stylo,' while the sparse, glitchy base of 'White Flag' is embroidered with brilliant threads of bhangra." Uncut (p.36) - Ranked #18 in Uncut's "The 50 Best Albums of 2010" -- "[A] witty, profound, star-studded ecodrama." Mojo (Publisher) (p.55) - Ranked #26 in Mojo's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2010" -- "[Gorillaz] breathed new life into the idea of pop music as intelligent and knowing..." Pitchfork (Website) - ""[The] group's most affecting an uniquely inviting album....A loose environmental-song cycle warning against disposability." Clash (Magazine) - "An intoxicating cocktail of musical styles and pioneers, PLASTIC BEACH is instantly recognisable as a Gorilla album..."
Distribution
EMI
Engineer
Stephen Sedgwick; Jason Cox
Number of Audio Channels
Stereo
Number of discs
1
Country/Region of Manufacture
USA

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