Drop an anvil at the recording of Demon Days, the celeb-packed second album from Gorillaz - the Technicolor front for Blur's Damon Albarn, producer Dan the Automator, artist Jamie Hewlett, and rapper Del Tha Funky Homosapien - and you'd probably have crushed a half-dozen B-list musicians, a couple of style icons, and the odd Hollywood star besides. Given that it's been co-produced by Dangermouse, creator of copyright-flaunting hip-hop epic The Grey Album, you'd be right to suspect many of these are rappers: Daisy Age legends De La Soul add zing to the tweaked disco-hop of "Feel Good Inc", while Roots Manuva adds a touch of brooding introspection to the juddering "All Alone". But there's some strange surprises, too: a cameo from Dennis Hopper, whose monologue on "Fire Coming Out Of The Monkey's Head" is an eerie highlight; ex-Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder, who rambles along enjoyably on "DARE" - even though he never gets much further than announcing the song's title; or the welcome return of Neneh Cherry, who joins Albarn in song with a snatch of Salt N Pepa's "Push It" on the menacing "Kids with Guns". A dark return from these dedicated culture vultures, but thankfully, not at the expense of their cartoonish pop presence. --Louis Pattison

Shame there won't be any more from the Gorillaz, but at least it's another British band that went out on a high and really took a stand to make it all about the music, removing themselves even from the stage.

Also much better than the first album which didn't really have much more meat round the bones once you'd heard the biggest three singles.

This is the best thing that Gorillaz have ever done.
Fantastic songs that brings you the best CD in the past two years! I buy lots of music so I speak from knowledge. I definatly recommend this to anyone. Feel Good Inc., Dirty Harry and El Manana are the best songs in a long, long time.
This is the rebirth of Electronica!

I listened to this during my first year of uni almost constantly. And now that I'm in my first year I still listen to it. When I first got it I listened to it constantly for almost a month.

The mixture of musical genres in this is interesting. If you love music, and arnt too fussy and are open minded, I can recommend this.

Another fine turn from Damon Albarn and co. From Dirty Harry through to Feel Good Inc this is a solid turn with no duff tracks.
I listened to it solidly for two weeks. As good as the other album.

The thing that really makes this album great is the originality in both the songs and the project as a whole. As an album it has a lot of outstanding songs especially the singles like "Feel Good Inc.", "Dare" and "Dirty Harry"
Admitedly some songs are a bit dull but then you are getting an album with 15 songs on it so this doesn't really matter. It is a really good album though and at this price you might as well go for it!
Album highlight has to be "Fire coming out of the monkey's head" - Wow!!!

Just buy it, you won't regret it!