Gorillaz - "The Mountain" [OUT NOW] [The Mountain, The Moon Cave, The Sad God MV OUT NOW]

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  • Delirium, before it gets to the high energy chorus, reminds me of Busted & Blue in some way

  • ThomFork

    The album's not trying to have "signature choruses" and their presence or absence shouldn't be a major contributing factor in whether the album succeeds or not. It's not trying to be a pop compilation album. Damon's lyricism on here is pretty stellar because in many ways that's the focus of a lot of these songs. The same criticisms you're throwing around could easily be levied at Plastic Beach and half of the band's other records.

    Ragging on Damon's melody writing on an album with Moon Cave, Happy Dictator, Orange County (!!), Delirium, Plastic Guru, etc. is just plain wild my guy. All of those songs have very memorable choruses/melodies on an album that's not even prioritizing that lol

    Idk man on first listen there’s no strong standouts on the level of an empire ants, broken or melancholy hill and the vocal delivery is a big reason why

    You made a good case tho so imma agree to disagree till I listen a few more times

  • Vlonely 🦍
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    TDUB701

    Nah bruh it may be cohesive but Damon Albarn is a huge weak link and just mumbles his way thru the album not leaving any real stand out song writing behind

    Instrumentally album is great with the Indian vibes but Damon sounds the same basically all the way thru, monotone and dull af, doesn’t deliver any signature choruses on par with s*** like baby queen, just muttering and mumbling with a reference to the mountain here and there

    Due to this the album is bottom 3 gorillas easily

    Intro track is an instrumental and prolly the best thing on this weak ass album

    How is Baby Queen the chorus you reference as a standard

  • Vlonely

    How is Baby Queen the chorus you reference as a standard

    (Baby Queen is a top tier Gorillaz song tho)

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    Vlonely

    How is Baby Queen the chorus you reference as a standard

    How is this what you got offended by lmaooooo. Baby queen is as vibey a gorillas song as there is wtf

  • Vlonely 🦍
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    TDUB701

    How is this what you got offended by lmaooooo. Baby queen is as vibey a gorillas song as there is wtf

    Great song don't get me wrong. But the chorus isn't even the highlight of the song and nowhere in the realm of top Gorillaz hooks lol

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    Watched Damon's interview with Fantano and was pleased to hear that they're already cooking up the Big Idea for the next record, despite the finality of this one and its accompanying visuals.

  • Noir

    Watched Damon's interview with Fantano and was pleased to hear that they're already cooking up the Big Idea for the next record, despite the finality of this one and its accompanying visuals.

    I think they're going to soft reboot the characters as kids through reincarnation and I think that's been the plan for a while now. Exciting stuff.

  • Music and arrangements 9/10

    Guests 6/10 brought down by great value bad bunny

    Vocals 2/10 Damon has exact same monotone background in the mix vocals on every song with next to no real melodies or harmonies of note. sounds like he’s singing a bed time story to his kid only it’s putting him to sleep instead of the kid

  • Damon looking like a half in the bag Sandinista-era Mick Jones we love to see it

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    Del on SNL

    Moon Cave sounded great too:

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    Noir

    Del on SNL

    !https://youtu.be/pMKA0ahftME?si=F1JZXa3Sgloscw9A

    Moon Cave sounded great too:

    !https://youtu.be/ZU_7tlOHOfI?si=BRrDJXwWCEdwgETZ
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    Noir

    Del on SNL

    !https://youtu.be/pMKA0ahftME?si=F1JZXa3Sgloscw9A

    Moon Cave sounded great too:

    !https://youtu.be/ZU_7tlOHOfI?si=BRrDJXwWCEdwgETZ

    should’ve done dare instead

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    whwre yall ranking it

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    Sir Swagalot

    Happy Dictator is easily top 10 in their discog now

    yeah it definitely is

  • OPEN IN THE DOOR

  • damascus is crazy

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    might have to cop the vinyl

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    the shadowy light

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    Scatt

    the shadowy light

    oh yeah this is the one wow

  • man this is a beautiful album

    demon days still my favorite but this may be my second

  • ending of casablanca got me emotional

  • Scatt

    whwre yall ranking it

    Plastic Beach
    Demon Days
    The Mountain
    Song Machine
    Gorillaz
    The Now Now
    Humanz (if I can pick and choose select songs from this era)
    Cracker Island/The Fall

  • Scatt

    whwre yall ranking it

    I can't tell if I like this or Song Machine more since they're such different projects. But it's fantastic and in their top 5 for sure. Any combination of them makes sense.

    Demon Days
    Plastic Beach
    Self Titled / Song Machine / The Mountain

    to me

  • Demon Days
    Humanz
    Gorillaz
    The Mountain
    The Now Now
    Plastic Beach
    Song Machine
    The Fall
    Cracker Island

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