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Back to: Archive · 2000 Gorillaz - 'Tomorrow Comes Today EP' From the NME, 25 November 2000. Review by Sylvia Patterson. Damon Albarn... he's the new Bono! And the new Brian Westlife, ie, the dullest man in the history of non-opinion. Deliberately. And the Princess Diana of sometime boring rock (except alive), retreating as he is from Public Life to perch upon the lofty Plinth of Global Arts'n'Humanities. We hope you enjoyed him, while he was 'here'. Suck-uur! He's still here, alright, and gone and made a pop tune, sort of; a shuffle-beat groover with his hip-hop pals, containing infinitely more creative verve than the wilfully bewildering '...Radar' snooze-fest. Whistle along, then, to a 21st-century fisherman's blooze-hop opus, a lot like The Beta Band asleep on a dinghy made out of dreams, adrift over the Barrier Reef. Man. Elsewhere, it's all De La Soul and Tom Waits and a tune called "12D3", which is 'Chopsticks' on the piano and a man on a life-support machine breathing, irregularly, "One two dee three... I'm too dee to want you by me do be". Aye. Gorillaz, whoever these people are, are tooth-meltingly stylish and terribly grown-up, but at least they know Tunes. |