But there is still a through-line across these 11 songs (17 on the deluxe edition) вЂ” a maximalist approach to songwriting that was missing from 2018's The Now Now. Their latest is a compilation of one-offs from the group's narrative-less music video project. Two decades on, they're still following the thread, fusing genres and collaborating with a rotating mix of artists. Gorillaz (2001) Demon Days (2005) Plastic Beach (2010) The Fall (2010) Humanz (2017) The Now Now (2018) Song Machine: Season One (2020)Albums Singles EPs Other Gorillaz TracksDamon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett founded Gorillaz вЂ” a group of four cartoon musicians who poke fun at the pop/rock-star industrial complex вЂ” as a kitschy antithesis to slick-sounding boy bands. It helped that Gorillaz's eponymous debut was an international hit right out of the gate in 2001, thanks in part to the moody, slinky smash single 'Clint Eastwood.' Its sunny counterpart, 'Feel Good Inc.,' was an even bigger hit in 2005, while its parent album, Demon Days, revealed how Albarn used Gorillaz as a way to absorb non-rock music.

But the songs show their differences as it unfurls: 'Cannibal,' a dreamy high-altitude duet with Liz Fraser of Cocteau Twins, segues into the glitchy, throbbing 'Wildeye' Swedish pop goddess Robyn drops by to honk the dance-floor horn on 'Salt Licorice,' trading sly lines about blue-eyed blondy boys and Scandinavian pain. And on the surface, it's all there: the eerie instrumentation and frosted falsetto, an entire moodboard of elfin tundra and midnight suns. Because his voice is so synonymous with Sigur, it would also be easy to presume more of the same from Shiver, his first solo studio album in more than a decade. JГіnsi, has fronted for nearly 25 years. How this has a higher score than Humanz is something I.If your idea of Iceland is a sort of umlauted Narnia inhabited entirely by twee tiny woodsprites, at least some part of that is owed to Sigur RГіs вЂ” the ReykjavГk band whose crystallized soundscapes JГіn ГћГіr Birgisson, a.k.a.

This posthumous release of covers (Jones passed away in 2016, from pancreatic cancer) looks to further that work. Aching and guttural, swaggering and sincere, the sound she honed вЂ” with her band the Dap-Kings вЂ” fit so comfortably alongside previous R&B icons that it was easy to confuse her songs with ones that had been made decades earlier. B+ вЂ” Leah GreenblattSharon Jones' voice could move mountains. Maybe that's why Shiver feels as liberated as it does: the sound of an artist in mid - stream, still discovering how far his voice can go. On those tracks and elsewhere, JГіnsi вЂ” who has been quietly but openly out for many years вЂ” offers a new kind of glimpse into his private world, singing intimately (and almost entirely in English) of desire and raw vulnerability.

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