release date: May 24, 2005
format: cd
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,38]
producer: Gorillaz & Danger Mouse (and others)
label: Parlophone - nationality: England, UK
Track highlights: 2. "Last Living Souls" - 3. "Kids With Guns" (feat. Neneh Cherry) - 4. "O Green World" - 6. "Feel Good Inc." (feat. De La Soul) (4 / 5) - 12. "DARE" (feat. Shaun Ryder & Rosie Wilson) - 13. "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head" (feat. Dennis Hopper)
2nd studio album by Gorillaz pretty much continues in the same style as the debut from 2001. It's an album featuring a bunch of other artists, and the end result is an album pointing in just as many directions as the total number of featuring artists.
It contains a few really fine songs but overall it also feels close to the predecessor, and the hit material lacks somewhat. "Feel Good, Inc." is a great hit single, which went #2 on the national singles hit list, but the second single, "DARE" reached #1 on that list without really being a better composition. I think, the first single simply paved the way for the latter.
Without being great, this is a nice listen.
[ allmusic.com 4,5 / 5, Rolling Stone 3 / 5 stars ]
