ALBUM REVIEWS

Rating: The only Gorillaz album I consider mid

Notes:mid. Sorry Greg Kurstin but, i'm not a fan of your work on this album. Feels like it gives up on the theming at the middle of the tracklist. Could’ve been better, it is growing on me a bit though. I also think there are too many consecutive slow songs at the beginning, which ruins the pacing a lot. Also people are way to mean on Tormenta, its a pretty good song! Also also, I think I'm not the only one who think Captain Chicken is peak and should've been on the main tracklist. I sounds like if Superfast Jellyfish was on Demon Days.

• New Gold
• Tarantula
• Captain Chicken

Rating: Sophisticated cloud

Notes: It just... makes me happy. Which was what I needed after listening to The Now Now. I love every song and its slowly becoming my favourite album even if it shouldn’t cos it's technically isn't an album. Watched it episodically first and then listened to the actual album on CD, it was really fun. I got the deluxe CD without knowing and it was one of the best accidental purchases of my life. Opium is literally one of my favourite songs ever. Oh also, How Far would be a great track for a Sorry To Bother You fan-mv. Really sad that season 2 (if it even existed) got cancelled though :(

• Désolé
• Momentary Bliss
• Opium

Rating: Emotional breakdown /10

Notes: the 3rd listen broke me. Will write more about this album another day. I have never related to a piece of media EVER before this album. I look back and see literal foreshadowing in my life that leads up to me listening to this. I described the album when finishing my first listen as a painted little picture and I still find that very fitting. To be continued one day...

• Kansas
• Sorcererz
• Souk Eye

Rating: A hair from greatness

Notes: It just feels like there's something missing... which makes sense haha. Pirate Jet didn’t feel like an ending track and that really bothered me first listen. I grew to like it more but I still feel like there's a piece missing for it to be great. Oh yeah, they should've played Pirate's Progress fully for the intro, would've made it peak. Leitmotifs babyyyyyyyy.

• Pirate's Progress
• Broken
• Sweepstakes

Rating: Shouldn't be this good

Notes: The fact that a B-SIDE album could be this good is crazy to me. When listening to it, I imagine a story of someone who's trying to find meaning and joy in life again after being swallowed by the mundanity and fakeness of it all. You can hear that a lot in tracks like Rockit, The Swagga and Hongkongaton. How everything for this person is just mush noise (L'Étranger ass album, lmao). Gives me that vibe.

• We Are Happy Landfill
• The Swagga
• Hong Kong

Rating: pretty good

Notes: Godzilla cry can be heard 4 times so yayyy!!! Makes me feel like I'm an American.

• Come with me - puff daddy feat’ Jimmy Page
• Deeper underground - jamiroquai

Rating: blink 182 album /pos

Notes: Makes me feel like a rebellious white male teen in the 2000s fr fr.

• Aliens exist (they say backrooms haha)
• Anthem (reminds me of sqsqd now or never)

Rating: so good I love

Notes: gets way too much slack for what it is. I actually thought it was better (album, structure-wise) than plastic beach. I’m a sucker for good transitions and I just, really like it. Blame Splatoon for conditioning me to unconventional music I guess.

• Hillbilly Man
• Detroit
• Aspen Forest

Rating: a real grower

Notes: did NOT know people hated this album this much. It’s really really good and I personally think it’s in par with Demon Days and Plastic Beach. I got the theme of the album 3 songs in without any prior knowledge. Now that’s good theming. Transitions are godly, ascension is an amazing opener and we got the power actually feels like an ending

• Ascension
• Submission
• Charger

Rating: funky fresh

Note: it’s THE jamiroquai album, of course I remember it! Mom has this one on CD so I’ll re-listen to it like that to refresh my memory

• Alright
• Drifting Along
• Bonus Track

Rating: wow

Notes: amazing album, very concise, the Hawaii and past memories motif. Album construction is very good. Makes an amazing companion piece to pb (don’t get me started on the reasoning)

• Black Rainbows
• Labrynth
• Sweet Dreams in Sea Major

Rating: amazing

Notes: One of the best non-g album I’ve listened to. I got that special « first time listening t o it and I need the cd right now » feeling. Amazingly constructed album, no criticisms. Love the story and its involvement within the song’s tones and lyrics, converted me into a Tyler fan.

• IGOR'S THEME
• A BOY IS A GUN*
• GONE GONE/THANK YOU

Rating: good

Notes: I liked it , feels like a sitcom but idk why. I’ll probably like it and appreciate it more on a second listen

• Accordion
• All Caps
• Rhinestone Cowboy