Flume builds foundationally experimental, sonically pleasing ‘Palaces’
Future Classic/Courtesy
Palaces encapsulates all of Streten’s successful recipes while twisting and turning through occasional oddity.
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Gorillaz wields wistful synths on EP ‘Song Machine Episode 3’
‘Song Machine Episode 3’ encapsulates the same electronic dreaminess of Gorillaz’s former work, but it’s the staggering of emotion throughout the release that keeps listeners hooked.
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Gorillaz play it a little too safe on ‘The Now Now’
The album art — a swirly, wistful drawing in cotton candy hues of 2-D playing his guitar — is in line with the mood of The Now Now, which is primarily beachside ennui.
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Gorillaz energetically unify disparate crowd at Bill Graham on ‘Humanz’ tour
Besides the music videos cycling through the screen behind the stage, their 8-bit countenances also made occasional appearances on a small overhead display.
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Gorillaz carries its energy through San Francisco’s curfew
Friday | Land's End Stage
A cartoon band, Gorillaz may have started from behind Jamie Hewlett’s caricatures but permanent frontman Damon Albarn didn’t pretend to be anything other than flesh and blood at Outside Lands in its headlining set Friday night. Albarn stepped up to the crowd in dark jeans and a black shirt, bereft
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Gorillaz return with gloriously messy ‘Humanz’
As consumers of art, one of the issues we often face is how much stock to put in the artist when evaluating their works. Especially today, when many works of art comment upon a world that’s growing volatile in many respects, an artist’s personal identity becomes undeniably intertwined with their
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Terrence loves you
Cutting Room Floor
We were watching “American Psycho” when I kissed him for the last time. In some ways, I felt like I was kissing Patrick Bateman but that I’d rewritten the script and found his heart in his hand, at least for the night. Or maybe I was kissing the Dude. “The
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