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Nov 28, 2011It's a fine introduction to the multifaceted pleasures of Gorillaz.
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Nov 28, 2011Admire the riches this national treasure has bestowed upon us.
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Nov 28, 2011Consistently surprising, fanciful and varied, each genre flip, from pop, dub and hip-hop to rap is traversed with ease.
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Jan 12, 2012Their synthbeat-meets-comix concept got over as pop because it found a mildly playful and pleasurable way to enact well-meaning self-effacement.
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Nov 29, 2011Taking the greatest-hits route through Gorillaz's career, it's impressive how few of the tracks sound dated.
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Q MagazineDec 22, 2011This collections reveals that you can make music as clever or as conceptual as you like, but back it up with magnificent songs, and the people will flock. [Jan 2012, p.132]
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Nov 29, 2011Is Damon Albarn's "virtual band" the greatest British hip-hop act ever? This best-of makes a pretty strong argument for it -- not that the competition is all that stiff.
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Nov 28, 2011Albarn's work here with visual director Jamie Hewlett and a rotating cast of collaborators--Dan the Automator, Danger Mouse, Lou Reed, Snoop, etc.--is as remarkable as their 2001 debut selling six million records.
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Jan 3, 2012Gorillaz helped re-unite both indie and pop with that most Paul Morley's jowl-wobbling of things: the abstract.
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UncutDec 12, 2011If the Plastic Beach-era material gets a bit bogged down in the concept, it's not without its moments. [Jan 2012, p.86]
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Under The RadarJan 19, 2012Not one of them [the 15 singles on this album] sounds dated. [#39, p. 72]
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