’90s alt-rap great Del comes through for his second appearance on Gorillaz’ debut LP. This is a summer song for when everything is wrong, but partying is still on the docket.ġ0. It’s also, essentially, a collaboration with punk all-timers The Clash, as both guitarist Mick Jones and bassist Paul Simonon grace the tune with classic cool. ![]() Funky creaks and croaks and wonks plop here and there among the cascading keys. The title track from the Gorillaz’ third studio album is a real creamy dream. Nothing is resolved, and everything is as it should be.ġ1. It’s a cinematic piece that grows ever more interesting and noisy in a sweeping, chaotic build, before coming down in a sunset of strings. The bright keys could be the dusty piano. Albarn could be a man singing a sad song of love lost in an old saloon. This Demon Days deep cut has a Western feel, the crashing symbols sound like a cowboy’s heavy walk punctuated by the clinking of spurs. Gorillaz – “ Every Planet We Reach Is Dead ” And who doesn’t fall victim to the charms of an angelic chorus?ġ2. It bleeds just as seamlessly into Demon Days‘ album-ending title track This whole little closing act of the LP is quite brilliant, running beautifully on a theme with this tune as a reflective centerpiece. ![]() Right after the demise of the Happy People in “Fire Coming Out of the Monkey’s Head,” “Don’t Get Lost in Heaven” sweeps you into the bright lights of the afterworld. Put this one on next time you’re sitting around a campfire exchanging ghost stories.ġ3. The only other song I can think of anywhere remotely similar to this is The Velvet Underground’s “The Gift,” which is equally narrative-based and disturbing. This Gorillaz song features Dennis Hopper, from effing Easy Rider, reading to you the damned destiny of men who do not heed the warnings of nature.
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