Gorillaz

Editor's Review:

Gorillaz, those brash, lovable cartoon hipsters, are back, collaborating - or perhaps battling - with an odd crew of chimps in spacesuits. Whatever the story behind all this, Laika Come Home is a dub reincarnation of Gorillaz' 2001 self-titled debut. Each of the original tracks has been stuffed through a space-echo, and the resulting music is pretty much what one might expect from such a project. Though many of the tunes' main melodies and a few of the original structures remain, every track is marked by powerful and deeply melodic bass quakes, constant and ethereal hi-hat and any one of a variety of classic dub tricks - echo-y key and synth effects, drunkenly somber and distant horn blasts and turntable cuts and scratches. Is it good? Dub fanciers take note; hardcore fans of Gorillaz start cooing; all others do whatcha' feel.
- Max Sidman
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Record Label Astralwerks Released July 2002

Tracks 19 / 2000 > Jungle Fresh Slow Country > Strictly Rubadub Tomorrow Comes Today > Banana Baby Man Research > Monkey Racked Punk > De-Punked 5 / 4 > P.45 Starshine > Dub 09 Soundcheck (Gravity) > Crooked Dub New Genius (Brother) > Mutant Genius ReHash > Come Again Clint Eastwood > A Fistful of Penuts M1A1 > Lil Dub Chefin'

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