| Artist |
Gorillaz |
| Album Title: |
Plastic Beach |
| Album Cover: |
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| Primary Genre |
Alternative & Punk: General Alternative |
| Format |
CD |
| Released |
03/09/2010 |
| Label |
Virgin Records |
| Catalog No |
50996 27547 2 9 |
| Bar Code No |
5 09996-27547-29 |
| Packaging |
Cardboard Gatefold |
| Tracks |
| 1.
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Orchestral Intro / Gorillaz Feat. Sinfonia Viva (1:09)
(Gorillaz) |
| 2.
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Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach / Gorillaz Feat. Snoop Dogg & Hypnotic Brass Ensemble (3:35)
(Gorillaz/Snoop Dogg) |
| 3.
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White Flag / Gorillaz Feat. Bashy, Kano & the National Orchestra for Arabic Music) (3:43)
(Gorillaz/Bashy/Kano) |
| 4.
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Rhinestone Eyes (3:20)
(Gorillaz) |
| 5.
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Stylo / Gorillaz Feat. Bobby Womack & Mos Def (4:30)
(Gorillaz/Mos Def) |
| 6.
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Superfast Jellyfish / Gorillaz Feat. Gruff Rhys & De La Soul (2:54)
(Gorillaz/De La Soul/Gruff Rhys) |
| 7.
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Empire Ants / Gorillaz Feat. Little Dragon (4:43)
(Gorillaz/Yukimi Nagano) |
| 8.
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Glitter Freeze / Gorillaz Feat. Mark E Smith (4:03)
(Gorillaz/Mark E Smith) |
| 9.
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Some Kind of Nature / Gorillaz Feat. Lou Reed (2:59)
(Gorillaz/Lou Reed) |
| 10.
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On Melancholy Hill (3:53)
(Gorillaz) |
| 11.
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Broken (3:17)
(Gorillaz) |
| 12.
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Sweepstakes / Gorillaz Feat. Mos Def & Hypnotic Brass Ensemble (5:20)
(Gorillaz/Mos Def) |
| 13.
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Plastic Beach / Gorillaz Feat. Mick Jones & Paul Simonon (3:47)
(Gorillaz) |
| 14.
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To Binge / Gorillaz Feat. Little Dragon (3:55)
(Gorillaz/Yukimi Nagano) |
| 15.
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Cloud of Unknowing / Gorillaz Feat. Bobby Womack & Sinfonia Viva (3:06)
(Gorillaz) |
| 16.
|
Pirate Jet (2:32)
(Gorillaz) |
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| Date Acquired |
04/13/2010 |
| Personal Rating |
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| Acquired from |
Best Buy |
| Purchase Price |
7.99 |
Web Links |
All Music Guide Entry:
Discogs Entry: |
Notes |
foobar2000 1.3.6 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2015-02-10 15:09:32
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Analyzed: Gorillaz / Plastic Beach
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR9 -1.96 dB -15.47 dB 1:09 01-Orchestral Intro
DR6 -0.18 dB -7.96 dB 3:36 02-Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach
DR7 0.00 dB -9.09 dB 3:43 03-White Flag
DR10 0.00 dB -10.95 dB 3:20 04-Rhinestone Eyes
DR6 0.00 dB -7.23 dB 4:31 05-Stylo
DR6 0.00 dB -6.78 dB 2:55 06-Superfast Jellyfish
DR4 -0.20 dB -7.96 dB 4:44 07-Empire Ants
DR6 0.00 dB -6.62 dB 4:03 08-Glitter Freeze
DR6 0.00 dB -7.52 dB 3:00 09-Some Kind of Nature
DR7 0.00 dB -8.18 dB 3:54 10-On Melancholy Hill
DR5 0.00 dB -6.58 dB 3:17 11-Broken
DR5 0.00 dB -6.69 dB 5:20 12-Sweepstakes
DR7 0.00 dB -8.81 dB 3:47 13-Plastic Beach
DR7 0.00 dB -8.79 dB 3:56 14-To Binge
DR10 0.00 dB -12.72 dB 3:06 15-Cloud of Unknowing
DR8 0.00 dB -10.76 dB 2:32 16-Pirate Jet
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Number of tracks: 16
Official DR value: DR7
Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 969 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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| Reviews |
All Music Guide Review:
Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Gorillaz began as a lark but turned serious once it became Damon Albarn’s primary creative outlet following the slow dissolve of Blur. Delivered five years after the delicate whimsical melancholy of 2005’s Demon Days, Plastic Beach is an explicit sequel to its predecessor, its story line roughly picking up in the dystopian future where the last album left off, its music offering a grand, big-budget expansion of Demon Days, spinning off its cameo-crammed blueprint. Traces of Albarn’s Monkey opera can be heard, particularly in the hypnotic Mideastern pulse of “White Flag,” but Damon’s painstaking pancultural pop junk-mining no longer surprises -- when hip-hop juts up against Brit-pop, it’s expected -- yet it still has the capacity to delight no matter which direction the Gorillaz may swing. Lou Reed’s crotchety croak on “Some Kind of Nature” has the same kind of gravitational pull as Mos Def leading the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble through the intensely circling “Sweepstakes,” while the group reaches new heights of sparkling pop on “Superfast Jellyfish,” aided by the return of De La Soul -- the rappers who propelled “Feel Good Inc.” -- and an appearance from Gruff Rhys, the Super Furry Animals frontman who is an ideal fit for Gorillaz (possibly because SFA’s genre-bending pop and Pete Fowler artwork clearly paved the way for Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s collaboration). A common thread among all these tracks is that they find Albarn ceding the spotlight to his fellow musicians, preferring to be the puppetmaster behind the curtain, and Plastic Beach works best when he’s the composer and producer, finding hidden strengths within his guests -- having Mick Jones and Paul Simonon for the elastic title track, coaxing some powerful performances out of Bobby Womack -- but often when Albarn takes center stage his laconic drawl lets the air out of the balloon. Curiously, much of this arrives toward the beginning of the album, the record gaining momentum as it unspools, working toward its climax, but the overall album accentuates moody texture over pop hooks. This emphasis means Plastic Beach is the first Gorillaz album to play like a soundtrack to a cartoon -- which isn’t entirely a bad thing, because as Albarn grows as a composer, he’s a master of subtly shifting moods and intricately threaded allusions, often creating richly detailed collages that are miniature marvels. Ironically, these individual pieces don’t add up to an overall masterpiece, possibly because the narrative is convoluted and strained, getting in the way of the pure musical flow, but also because it’s hard not to shake the feeling that this is a transitional effort, pointing toward a day when Damon Albarn will feel no need to front a band, not even in a cartoon guise.
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