The Good, The Bad and The Queen is Wicked

The notion. I don't go out of my way to hear Damon Albarn projects.

(Runs away from molotov cocktails.)

No.

Don't care much for the rest of the album, but 'Herculean' is utterly, utterly beautiful. Especially those jaw-dropping first 30 seconds.

Another album is on the cards. I presume the band name will remain as <______________>.

I found it rather tedious on first listen. Haven't attempted a second listen as a result. Might have to go back now and re-check it out.

I liked the album kind of but it was very background-musicky, not a lot of bright moments. Tony Allen is mixed really shittily, I think the album would've been better with the drums on every track turned up like 2 notches. Damon Albarn sounds like an old fart on this album; my roommate said he's doing his Lyrics Born impression.

He looks like an old fart too now.

The album's a grower. There's some real beauty in there if you've the patience to let it unfold.

They made a new album.

This is the lead single, a very sad thing about brexit, it's sort of nothing special and sort of amazing at the same time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p1mq19htTc

...PARKLIFE

Nah, just kidding, it's very good

Okay, so this is pretty much the best album Damon's been involved with this decade. I'm really surprised by how much I love this, given that I found the first LP a bit of a snooze.

Yeah, it really feels like he's put his heart into it in a way he hasn't done in ages.

I agree! As much as I like The Now Now and The Magic Whip (which has grown on me a great deal over the last couple of years), there's a spark on this record that I haven't felt from a Damon project in a long time.

I want to hate this because of general Albarn-aversion and the strong whiff of whimsy (that bloody cover; the nods to hauntology) but I ended up liking the first record despite myself and this is sounding very good.

Now I've annoyed myself with an imaginary review titled: 'anthems for a post-Brexit Britain?'

Yeah I was liking this as well when I listened earlier. It has literally everything going against it except the fact it's quite good

Willing to call this the best Damon thing since 13. Admittedly there's not really any competition for that (except arguably Demon Days)

maybe i'll have to give it another listen. it certainly sounded like damon's best album since plastic beach when i listened (not that anything he's done since then has been much good) but it didn't really stick with me. "best since 13" seems impossible though when there's think tank and demon days

i'm a think tank denialist

unless you want to consider it the 'out of time ep', tracklist ambulance/out of time/on the way to the club/caravan/battery in your leg there that's acceptable. both the songs with 'song' in the name are overrated imo

One of them is "good"

those 5 + the two 'song's + gene by gene are all great

i also need to revisit the tgb&tq debut i guess because i barely remember it at all

Think Tank only has like 2 bad songs wtf

afraid to listen to this tbh

the debut has 'herculean' which is, to harp on a theme, albarn's best song since the last millennium imo

that's all i remember from it and i do love it

title track is a nice little rave-up

Merrie Land is really excellent

God I love these records.