Brilliant

A great album that makes you think Damon Albarn could become the new David Bowie. Even you don't like this record you have to admit his brain just doesn't stop creating fresh music

Amazing!

Albarn is ALWAYS stretching and inspiring. While Three Changes was better when sung live at the Roundhouse, the album is genuinely beautiful and continually unexpected.

a beautiful album that improves with every listening.

amazing album. a definte grower.

The Good, the Bad and the Queen proves Albarn is more than just a pop musician. He is an artist and this album consists of a fully realized concept. While immediate hooks may be absent, Albarn has a good ear for nice melodies perfectly understated on this album.

It's not what I have been waiting to hear, but it's beautiful multi-layer music.

They should just call this a damon albarn solo album. The rest of the guys don't do anything except extend the album summary with credits.

The best album released in 2007. Some exceptional singles, but it's real genius is how the entire enterprise unfolds, with songs flowing into each other.

The most beautiful and charismatic album released in 2007, it's magical.

Damon Albarn is a brilliant mind always looking for new sounds, new musical textures and certainly sometimes he has not lived up to the expectations (as in the Mali Music album). With the TGTBATQ he has returned to the best of his form. The album looks like the mandatory sequel to the amazing Blur's Think Tank, with great melancholic songs such as Green Fields, Kingdom Of Doom, Herculean, 80's Life to name but a few. I hope they come to tour the US, I see it difficult though.… Expand

good sh*t! bleak yet hopeful, comforting yet stern.

Good Album - not amazing but a good album all the same

excellent album

A beautifully understated record. Not as bleak as I imagined, as always Albarn has an ear for a pop tune but here, he and the band offer so much more depth than his previous work.

neither pop nor catchy, an experimental release with bad production. Definitely a decline from the excellent gorillaz album previously released not too long ago.

Good album, but considering the group members, this is still a Damon Albarn album. The other players barely show up. Which is a shame, cause they could have added a lot.

The best music i've heard this new year... DA is getting serious. GW!!

This album is the best Albarn project yet. A far better album start-to-finish than the last Gorillaz album, which lacked this discs consistent mood. Great for putting on while chilling with friends or alone.

worst album ever.

Couple nice songs

amazing work, a grower.

This is one of the most impressive albums I've heard in recent years. It is so complex in such a magnitude that every track is different and complex from each other. This is the first album that is truly beatle-esque in that it has the same magic effects that any beatle album has but still doesn't match to their masterpieces like Sgt. Pepper. Great Album that won't dissapoint a true fan of music.… Expand

This is a very good, soothing, chill album. It seems to play best as a background filler, blocking out a silence in life with very descriptive emotional sounds. Herculean, Northern Whale and the title track give you its key flavor but the whole album is a gourmet dinner.

The perfect follow-up to the last blur album "Think Tank". Damon Albarn is a genius.

The history of UK post-punk. Excellent.

Great stuff. He just doesn't stop changing direction, coming up with great music that says Alburn all over it, yet is no mimic of anything he has ever done. A great 'in your face' to the single churning monstrosity that the music industry is and has always been. Which leaves me to comment on 'Now Magazine', who shouldn't review something they don't understand. Go back to wiping Brittney's bottom. Fantastic, you won't regret getting yourself involved here.… Expand

boring...

A seven for now. I have a feeling it might grow on me but it'll take a while so for now a 7. Wish Coxon would take his head out of his ass and they both would just concentrate on blur albums, though.

This CD is mellow. Very, very mellow. It isn't one that's going to soundtrack your workout or hype up your party, but if you like relaxing pop with lush production on starry evenings, then this fits the bill quite nicely. Don't let the production credit of Dangermouse fool you, there is very little that hints at hip-hop. It's just mellow, lush pop music that bleeds an amber sadness.… Expand

this album is great, but this thing of forming an elite-band out of legends it's gonna become like a cliche, so this charistmatic event it's unestable

You wonder, how Damon Albern could go so wrong with his vocals on this record. Instrumental The Good, The Bad & The Queen works so much better, and the track 'Back In The Day', seems to be misplaced on the Herculean single.

Amazing production, instrumentation, and i've never heard damon albarn sound so beautiful on nearly every track. All in all a great vintage mellow pop album with hints of herman's hermits, specials - ghost town sound, & maybe some stone roses, and classic blur ballads.

Like always Damon Albarn mixed with succes pop melody and more experimental sound. the song are realy beautiful and always innovative but less catchy that in BLUR or in GORILLAZ and more ambient.

Solid Work

More like a follow up to 'Modern Life is Rubbish' than 'Parklife'. Dares to say something about London life rather than rehash trendy platitudes. Not immediate but a definite grower. If it has a fault it's that it feels like an Albarn solo effort than the work of a cohesive band. He's never been quite as good without Coxon. Very good though, nontheless.

Loved it from the start. Love it more with each listen. Though the "supergroup" aspect doesn't make sense at first, it's a fully realized whole and the players work together so cohesively it would only detract were any one of them to take the forefront. That being said, Paul Simonon lays down a grounding groove over which Albarn spins his melancholic, dreamy web. In an age when so much music washes over you like a short passing storm, this album stays with you ; a grey London day suffused with portent and hidden yearning.… Expand

The album can be very frustrating at times due to its uninviting, dark demeanor. However, once this demeanor is embraced then the album plays the role of the first worthwhile album in 2007 quite nicely.