They Ain't Got A Change
The latest news from the Gorillaz camp is that the new album will be titled Demon Days. A final release date has yet to surface, but I think it's going to be sometime in May. I don't think that this track was intended as the lead single, but it's the one that's been floating around (most notably last week at stereogum). I think it's just out there to whet our appetites, what with the Damon solo joint sample and the Clint Eastwood reset.
As far as I can tell (and from what my exceedingly reliable sources have told me), the new album is going to be different from the last, and also different from this track. So, don't get all sour on the album yet if you aren't feelin' this. I, for one, like the Gorillaz sound. This tracks sounds less... cartoony... than their first effort, which I think is a direct result of Del being absent. But I love the children's chorus at the beginning, the synth vamp, the dubby bass-- it's all there. And once The Pharcyde's Booty Brown kicks in over that heavy snare beat with the string sample... well, it becomes a thing of its own. Dangermouse is going to prove that he's got more than just Beatles in his crates.
We'll keep you posted on all these things as they come to us.
*this graphic comes from the first page of the never-before-seen Gorillaz comic book.