GORILLAZ
GORILLAZ
PARLOPHONE
★★★★
After six albums, Blur were beginning to fracture following 1999’s desolate 13, which in retrospect feels like a break-up eulogy for the band and the 90s as much as Damon Albarn’s relationship with Elastica’s Justine Frischmann. At 20 years’ distance, it’s remarkable that even someone as prolific as Albarn was able to casually move inside 18 months from the heartbreak of No Distance Left To Run and Tender to becoming a pure-pop cartoon, producing with hip-hop mainstay Dan The Automator. As reinventions go, it’s the equal from one album to the next as anything David Bowie pulled off.