The music here can be laidback, upbeat, energetic, or just fucking anthemic. It's more in an easygoing way, where you can listen to the songs for years until anything really jumps out at you as painful. It's a dark, moody, reflective album but not in an overbearing, painful, Joy Division way. And the features become less of the focal point for me every time I listen. I'm pretty sure this was the first album that wasn't rap or R&B that I ever took seriously. Growing up and seeing Clint Eastwood on TV, with rapping and singing cartoons was cool as a little kid but this album shows you that yes it's a cartoon band - but that doesn't mean you shouldn't take it seriously.Īnd it's impossible not to. Everything about it is timeless, important, iconic. So I know this album like the back of my hand. I got kicked out of school about a month before my final exams and after a week of feeling like I'd been given an extra holiday, I realised I wouldn't get anywhere in life, let alone university, unless I tried to pass the exams.Įven though I'd skipped a lot of classes to smoke weed and the odds were against me, I managed to sit down in my room, listen to this album on repeat and study tirelessly, for like 8 hours a day. Going to try and be as brief as possible. I suppose in a nutshell, Demon Days is one of only two albums I can listen to front to back, maybe on repeat. So far I'm quite enjoying the Song Machine series. Plastic Beach was too sickly sweet to me, Humanz was okay and The Now Now just meh but I will always look out for their new releases and give them a fair shot more so than I would anyone else. I've not been so mad for their work since. I loved it, my friends at the time also loved it. If I could go back to that time again, I would so in a heartbeat. The KONG studios website which had you browsing the videos, interacting with characters and finding easter eggs. I loved the sometimes dark, mysterious and just plain weird vibe that a lot of the music, artwork and music videos gave off. Gorillaz's best album hands down, I have always been a massive fan of their Phase 1 & 2 stuff as I grew up with it, I was 7 when I asked dearest mummy to buy me that cool looking CD which turned out to be the Clint Eastwood single. Not one for long sprawling walls of texts but everyone has an exception. Complex included it on their list of 100 Best Albums of the Complex Decade, placing it at number 43, and Spin later included it in their list of "The 300 Best Albums of 1985–2014". The NME placed the album at number 98 on their list of 100 greatest albums of the decade, and Uncut placed it at number 75 on their list of top 150 albums of the decade. Spin ranked Demon Days as the fourth-best album of 2005, while Mojo ranked it at number eighteen on their year-end list and hailed the album as a "genre-busting, contemporary pop milestone". Outperforming their debut, the album has sold eight million copies worldwide, and spawned the singles "Feel Good Inc.", "Dare", "Dirty Harry", "Kids with Guns", and "El Mañana". Upon its release, Demon Days peaked at number one on the UK Albums Chart and number 6 on the US Billboard 200, and was later certified six times platinum in the UK and double platinum in the US. Almost all visuals associated with the album were designed by Gorillaz co-creator Jamie Hewlett, under his design company Zombie Flesh Eaters.
As with the band's eponymous 2001 debut, the release of Demon Days and its respective live performances were both accompanied by various multimedia, including interactive features on the Gorillaz website, a total of four animated music videos, and animatics for select videos. Produced by the band, Danger Mouse, Jason Cox, and James Dring, the album features contributions from De La Soul, Neneh Cherry, Martina Topley-Bird, Roots Manuva, MF DOOM, Ike Turner, Bootie Brown of the Pharcyde, Shaun Ryder, and Dennis Hopper. It was first released on by Virgin Records. Demon Days is the second studio album by English virtual band Gorillaz.
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