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Gorillaz: The Mountain – Beautifully Tender Record with a Sad Smile Plastered to Its Face

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Damon Albarn looks past western music for inspiration but album never sounds like the meanderings of a tourist

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Irish Times

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Gorillaz: The Mountain – beautifully tender record with a sad smile plastered to its face

Damon Albarn looks past western music for inspiration but album never sounds like the meanderings of a tourist

7 hours ago·Dublin, Ireland

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Gorillaz’s album The Mountain is full of joyful wisdom

The album’s posthumous contributors remind us that music can keep ghosts alive and – by spinning outtake samples of vanished voices into new forms – even serve as a kind of reincarnation

19 hours ago·London, United Kingdom

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The World Is Going Down Again – and the Gorillaz Are Going Steep

The British comic band around Damon Albarn also puts on the new album "The Mountain" a colorful crowd of guests and cheerfully stoned apocalypse pop

1 day ago·Vienna, Austria

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Musikexpress

Gorillaz :: the Mountain

Damon Albarn's mountain grooves to bold pop drafts that are familiar in the Global Beats. THE MOUNTAIN stands in India. Here, on the banks of the Ganges, Damon Albarn scattered his father's ashes. Here Jamie Hewlett drifted around, when his mother-in-law suffered a stroke from which she should no longer recover. However, the mountain stands above all in a country beyond all geographical realities. On her ninth album...

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Gorillaz ‘The Mountain’ review: Death has rarely sounded so joyful

On Gorillaz's ninth album, Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett acutely tackle their own experiences of mortality. The result is something unexpectedly beautiful

1 day ago

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