Listen to Clint Eastwood (In The Style Of Gorillaz) MP3 song. While it's not as polished and refined as their later records, it's still a wildly unique and creative record and a very fun listen.About Clint Eastwood (In The Style Of Gorillaz) Song Gravity only features three lines repeated ad nauseam, with Starshine and the bouncy 'Man Research (Clapper)' which is mainly just Albarn chanting 'yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah' over a thumping dance beat.

It's a mellow record and one I feel represents Albarn's mental state at the time, not that of the group's vocalist 2D. Even Clint Eastwood sports a pretty blue chorus, between guest rapper Del the Funky Homosapian's iconic verses. From The moody and agitated 'Tomorrow Comes Today' to the flat out depressive piano jam 'Slow Country'. The worst offender is the previous mentioned Latin Simone which is entirely in Spanish and as such, like Double Bass, very out of place on the album, which is odd given how an English version had already been recorded. The moody instrumental 'Double Bass' for example, goes on for a minute too long and overall sticks out like a sore thumb musically (still a good song though) and the closer 'M1A1' devotes a quarter of its runtime to an awkwardly long sampled intro. While sometimes this works in the tracks favour, like with Clint Eastwood, sometimes it drags some songs down. Tracks usually devolve into extended instrumental jams. However here, Albarn devotes a good chunk of the record to experimenting. While later gorillaz albums were similarly long, they were focused on different songs. Tracks like Starshine would sound better if they were cleared up, but the minimal production leads to the track sounding irritating and tinny.Īnother is the amount of tracks. It's not as slickly produced as their later releases, and here the shaky production is very noticeable.

Outside of the slick singles and a few select tracks, Gorillaz is a messy album. However at the same time, the focus on trip hop and dub leads into one of the album's main flaws. There's even genres like Latin and lo-fi which pop up on the surreal 'Latin Simone (Que Pasa Contigo?)' and 'Starshine' respectively. There's elements of punk, on the appropriately titled 'Punk', Dance on smash hit single 'Clint Eastwood', which combines a thumping baseline and piano chords to make a groovy beat, upbeat soul funk on 'Rock The House', which features a cheery horn section and dub with the massively catchy '19-2000'. Showcases the group's wide musical stylings, and this expands with the next track, The Lo-fi trip hop of 'Tomorrow Comes Today' which is layered with clattering drums and a lonely melodica, a mouth organ instrument used in dub music. Opener 'Re-Hash' is an upbeat acoustic number styled with record scratches and the very next track is the hard rock-esq '5/4'. Most tracks here are hip hop inspired tracks or surreal dub experiments, with the occasional rock song in there. Branching out from his alt rock roots, Albarn embraced hip hop and dub music with Gorillaz and their debut album is vastly different to what he produced with Blur. Musically, Gorillaz is a wild departure from Albarn's work in Blur. But is their debut album the modern classic many say it is? Let's take a look into the wild world of Gorillaz and their self titled debut record. Now they're a multi media experience, and critically acclaimed artists, even if they aren't real per say. Nowadays, the Gorillaz are more than a gimmick. Yet, the release of lead single 'Clint Eastwood' provided the band with a smash hit and low and behold, its parent album was too. So he did something different, recording an album in the guise of a band consisting of a black eyed idiot, a green skinned satanist, a drummer possessed by a ghost and a Japanese kid guitarist. I suppose if Albarn had released this as a solo album, expectations would have been monumentally high. Gorillaz' debut album is certainly an interesting beast. To have a band made up entirely of cartoon characters (with Albarn being the musical mastermind behind the scenes) was certainly an interesting idea and to release an album under the moniker and for it to be a smash hit surprised many. Born from the minds of Blur frontman Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett, Gorillaz were a bold experiment.

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