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Generally favorable reviews- based on 88 Ratings
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Positive: 73 out of 88
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Mixed: 11 out of 88
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Negative: 4 out of 88
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Mar 3, 2023A solid Gorillaz album. Some are saying the non single songs are fillers. I disagree. They are definitely just as good and grow on you. Lots of catchy songs that get stuck in your head
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Feb 24, 2023Very solid and enjoyable album. Silent Running is one of the best Gorillaz songs until now. Another fantastic job from Damon Albarn.
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Mar 20, 2023My favorite Gorillaz album since Plastic Beach. Damon Albarn is a genius, and Silent Running is probably my new favorite song from him
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Mar 4, 2023This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Mar 6, 2023
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Jul 20, 2023My favourite Gorillaz album. Totally surprised me after a few self-indulgent efforts, but this album's really great.
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Mar 1, 2023An exceptional deviation from the usual Gorillaz release. Captivating if given chance. Closer to the Rilling Stone review than the Slant critique. Hopefully, there will be remixes.
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Feb 26, 2023
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Feb 24, 2023Dare I say it, best Gorillaz album since Plastic Beach. Time and time again Damon proves he still has tricks up his sleeve to make absolute bangers to this day. Incredible album from front to back.
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Feb 24, 2023
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Feb 24, 2023
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Feb 24, 2023Impressive array or sounds and collaborators as always. The true pop direction is obvious and welcomed. The use of synths are fantastic and the production, as always, is on point. Some of the highlights for me are Silent Running, Oil, and the title track, Cracker Island. The back half is a little weaker than the front half.
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Feb 25, 2023Magical album, I have always loved the gorillaz style and they have great songs that are very enjoyable, definitely one of the band's best albums. There are not many artists who in more than 20 years are still in force with great themes. Most artists or bands are old memories or a marketing project that lasts, at most, a couple of years.
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Feb 27, 2023
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Mar 3, 2023Definitely some earworms on this album. No soulless dreck like most music these days. I'm playing "Oil" on repeat.
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Feb 24, 2023While not all songs sport the same quality, the overal feel makes ghis album easy to listen to
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Feb 28, 2023Another strong and catchy offering from everyone's favorite virtual band! Care was taken to refine the cream of the crop, hitting fans with the best of the new material that can be just as good as more recent sound machine offerings.
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Feb 24, 2023I honestly liked it a lot. I wouldn’t pick any song as top 10 of Gorillaz but as a whole is a nice album. I recommend listening to it
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Mar 7, 2023
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Feb 28, 2023Quite solid really. My only gripe of the songs is that they sound kind of samey, especially in some of the instrumentals but otherwise it's excellent. I don't get people saying that the Bad Bunny collab is out of place, sounded quite in tune with the other songs and it's a straight up BOP. Although some parts may be "boring" the amount of bangers in this album keep it interesting indeed.
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Mar 4, 2023An impeccable production and a unique electro rock, undoubtedly one of the best so far this year.
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Jun 23, 2023
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Feb 25, 2023Definitely a top 3 Gorillaz album. I would've loved to have given the album a 10 however many of the best songs were singles while the rest didn't quite have the same feel (except Oil of course)
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Feb 24, 2023Since Demon Days this is gorillaz best album. The last three songs are boring but Track 1 to Track 7 are really good. 8/10
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Feb 24, 2023Is a very enjoyable album, for me The Tired Influencer and Baby Queen are not very good like other songs, for example Tarantula. The best songs in this album are Silent Running, Skinny Ape, New Gold and Tarantula.
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Feb 24, 2023Funny that all the magic and trips climax mostly in the singles, and the others are just fillers that fade away quicker than smokes.
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Mar 5, 2023
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May 14, 2023Gorillaz at their top, as each album. They manage to express everytime the best that we can expect from them. Good songs, centred mood and lovely sound at the right moment.
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Feb 25, 2023Love nine TRACKS, Hate one TRASH (Bad Bunny)
Si escucho trabajos de bandas como la de Gorillaz, es porque no soy del tipo de público que escucha Bad Bunny, por eso la canción TORMENTA, fue un tormento para mí. Se me hace una completa profanación esta "colaboración". Por eso les puse 7 y no el 10 que se merecía este álbum. -
Feb 25, 2023
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Mar 29, 2023Through the highs and the lows that is Cracker Island, Gorillaz brings some good music to the ear for the most part. For a band that relies so heavily on production, they seemed to know what they were doing for the most part. I had a lot of fun with this LP, with tracks such as Cracker Island and Silent Running being extremely groovy as these two tracks are my favorites.
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Mar 2, 2023Cracker Island’s forgettable, milquetoast assembly line of tracks – though crisply and professionally engineered – proves that having it all shouldn’t always mean using it all.
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Mar 2, 2023Gorillaz was once a creative outlet that allowed Albarn to explore new territories. But Cracker Island suggests that the concept has grown stale. Those lovable animated creatures feel like they’re on an island of their own, isolated and untethered to what’s actually been churning the project forward all along.
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Feb 27, 2023Balancing bright, colorful electro-pop with a slight air of melancholy is hardly a new trick for Albarn yet there's a clean, efficient energy propelling Cracker Island that gives the album a fresh pulse.