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.
― nickalicious, Thursday, 25 October 2007 17:02 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 25 October 2007 22:45 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 12 November 2018 23:23 (five years ago) link
...PARKLIFE
Nah, just kidding, it's very good
― sbahnhof, Sunday, 18 November 2018 04:11 (five years ago) link
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.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Sunday, 25 November 2018 21:06 (five years ago) link
Yeah, it really feels like he's put his heart into it in a way he hasn't done in ages.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 25 November 2018 21:31 (five years ago) link
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.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Sunday, 25 November 2018 21:35 (five years ago) link
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.
― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Monday, 26 November 2018 10:18 (five years ago) link
Now I've annoyed myself with an imaginary review titled: 'anthems for a post-Brexit Britain?'
― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Monday, 26 November 2018 10:20 (five years ago) link
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
― imago, Monday, 26 November 2018 10:22 (five years ago) link
Willing to call this the best Damon thing since 13. Admittedly there's not really any competition for that (except arguably Demon Days)
― imago, Monday, 26 November 2018 12:34 (five years ago) link
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
― ufo, Monday, 26 November 2018 12:36 (five years ago) link
i'm a think tank denialist
― imago, Monday, 26 November 2018 12:53 (five years ago) link
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
― imago, Monday, 26 November 2018 13:06 (five years ago) link
One of them is "good"
― Mark G, Monday, 26 November 2018 14:20 (five years ago) link
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
― ufo, Monday, 26 November 2018 14:24 (five years ago) link
Think Tank only has like 2 bad songs wtf
afraid to listen to this tbh
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 26 November 2018 14:30 (five years ago) link
the debut has 'herculean' which is, to harp on a theme, albarn's best song since the last millennium imo
― imago, Monday, 26 November 2018 14:31 (five years ago) link
that's all i remember from it and i do love it
― ufo, Monday, 26 November 2018 14:32 (five years ago) link
title track is a nice little rave-up
― imago, Monday, 26 November 2018 14:34 (five years ago) link
Merrie Land is really excellent
― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 6 December 2018 19:05 (five years ago) link
God I love these records.
― assert (MatthewK), Monday, 15 June 2020 12:17 (three years ago) link