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[Eagle]

Plastic Beach is the upcoming third studio album by the virtual band Gorillaz! The album is going to feature Snoop Dogg, Kano, Bashy, Bobby womack, Mos Def, Gruff Rhys, De La Soul, Little Dragon, Mark E Smith, Lou Reed, Hypnotic brass ensemble, Mick Jones and Paul Simonon.

The first track off this album to hit the radio is "Stylo" Featuring Mos Def and Bobby Womack and will be released on January 26th. The album is currently set to release on the 8th March 2010.

The full tracklisting is as follows:
1. Orchestral Intro (featuring Sinfonia ViVA)
2. Welcome To The World Of The Plastic Beach (feat. Snoop Dogg and Hypnotic Brass Ensemble)
3. White Flag (feat. Kano, Bashy and The National Orchestra For Arabic Music)
4. Rhinestone Eyes
5. Stylo (feat. Bobby Womack and Mos Def)
6. Superfast Jellyfish (feat. Gruff Rhys and De La Soul)
7. Empire Ants (feat. Little Dragon)
8. Glitter Freeze (feat. Mark E Smith)
9. Some Kind Of Nature (feat. Lou Reed)
10. On Melancholy Hill
11. Broken12. Sweepstakes (feat. Mos Def & Hypnotic Brass Ensemble)
13. Plastic Beach (feat. Mick Jones & Paul Simonon)
14. To Binge (feat. Little Dragon)15. Cloud Of Unknowing (feat. Bobby Womack and Sinfonia ViVA)
16. Pirate Jet

Anyone else looking forward to this? I'm pretty pumped for the Lou Reed/Hypnotic Brass Ensemble collaborations.

[LionHeart]

Heh, feck yeah.
I was meaning on doin' a thread on this, but yeah.

I'm goin out March 8 straight to the nearest CD store.

[Blink]

YES.

I've been waiting for this for a while now. xD

[The Love Monkey]

I like.

[Artirock]

Kind of... Yeah.

[LionHeart]

http://www.spinnermusic.co.uk/2010/02/10/gorillaz-murdoc-video-premiere

New animated clip.
This is an interesting one.

(Edit: Oh and Rhinestone Eyes is awesome. Very moody. Dark vocals. Bizarre lyrics, but good composition. A tad too electronic at times.)
('Nother edit: New animated clip, 2D ident:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la9iRJFBhCg )

[Blink]

Avoiding what I can until I buy the album itself... but I heard Stylo the other day on the radio. I like how it's same old same old, but new stuff too. Dunno what to think of how "pop" or "hip hop" it is yet.

[Genji McCloud]

Honestly, no.  SORRY, STEALTH.

[LionHeart]

A track-by-track review just came out:

http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4139166-first-listen--gorillaz-plastic-beach?ticker

So have two new shorter reviews:
http://www.the-fly.co.uk/words/reviews/album-reviews/7073/album-review:-gorillaz
http://www.theskinny.co.uk/article/98682-gorillaz---plastic-beach

So, from what I gather, the First two and the last songs work in a similar manner to Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band.
...Intro and outro, I suppose.
And Bobby Womack is looking (uh) pretty good, regardless of his ripe age.
His strong vocals on Stylo were one of the standouts of the largely repetitive and electronic track, and will probably be in the entire album, alongside the other tune he's collaborated on.

And Damon Albarn's production could really mark a difference here, as opposed to Dan "The Automator" Nakamura's more hip-hop beat-influenced work on the first and Danger Mouse's great bass and pop resounding mixing on the second.
He's done the Horrors, but I can't really think of any clear reference points other than that, in the way the other two producers had distinctive marks (Dan - "Deltron 3030"; DM - "The Grey Album", "Gnarls Barkley")

Details aside, I can paint a clear enough picture (uh!) as to what we could expect from this.

...

...Personally, I'm stoked.

EDIT: New Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4UtbrbsrjY
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guHh9P6tLDg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLWarHgct_g

To Binge and Rhinestone Eyes in "full". Someone edited the clips from Previews, trailers and radio show clips and ended up with that.

[Blink]

Really, really good album. Not my favorite Gorillaz, definitely could do without the first two rap songs, but everything else is grand.