New Music: Gorillaz - Gorillaz

NOTE: In light of our slowing the CD of the Month club down, I think we should just review anything and everything. In the title we will preface whether it is new music (New Music:) to us or from the collection (Collection:). Collection means any music pre-club.

We both (mistakenly) bought this CD in September 05. I am not sorry we did. This album from the cartoon characters of the Gorillaz, is a richly diverse collection of genres all with nice techno backbeat. Overall I would call them a pop techno group.

Just a sample of the genres found in this record:

• old fashion rock in "54"
• modern dark soul in "New Genious"
• Hip-hop in "Clint Eastwood"
• trance techno in "Man Research"
• punk rock in "Punk"
• old school beat rap in "Rock the House"
• slow latino in "Latin Simone"
• jam band vocals in "slow Country"
• and instaces of blues and bluegrass throughout

www.gorillaz.com A lot of very catchy tunes that are easy to listen to. Good for a drive at night or a casual night of booz and poker.

Overall Rating: 8.4/10