{"id":4598,"date":"2012-02-03T18:07:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T01:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=4598"},"modified":"2012-02-03T18:10:08","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T01:10:08","slug":"gorillaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/02\/gorillaz\/","title":{"rendered":"GORILLAZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/GORILLAZ-M-Review-November2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4692\" title=\"GORILLAZ-M-Review-November2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/GORILLAZ-M-Review-November2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/GORILLAZ-M-Review-November2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/GORILLAZ-M-Review-November2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>G<\/strong><strong>ORILLAZ<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>The Singles Collection 2001\u20132011<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Virgin]<\/p>\n<p>Straight out of the cage, Gorillaz promised to be more than merely a high-concept art project. The \u201ccartoon\u201d rock band formed by Blur frontman Damon Albarn and animator Jamie Hewlett broke through in 2001 with \u201cClint Eastwood,\u201d a heavy helping of spaghetti-western dub and meaty old-school hip-hop. Albarn sang with quintessentially British melancholy, but he couldn\u2019t help but dream of the possibilities: \u201cThe future is coming on.\u201d As this 15-track retrospective attests, the group found its voice around the time of 2005\u2019s <em>Demon Days<\/em>. The single \u201cFeel Good Inc.\u201d paired Albarn\u2019s wistful acoustic strumming with the chomping rhymes of De La Soul, setting the stage for the King Kong-sized pop of the band\u2019s third album, 2010\u2019s <em>Plastic Beach<\/em>. By then Albarn had enlisted Lou Reed, Snoop Dogg and members of the Clash, among others, staffing the group with real-life characters even more colorful than Hewlett\u2019s.\u00a0\u2013Kenneth Partridge<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GORILLAZ The Singles Collection 2001\u20132011 [Virgin] Straight out of the cage, Gorillaz promised to be more than merely a high-concept art project. The \u201ccartoon\u201d rock band formed by Blur frontman Damon Albarn and animator Jamie Hewlett broke through in 2001 with \u201cClint Eastwood,\u201d a heavy helping of spaghetti-western dub and meaty old-school hip-hop. Albarn sang [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,2968,2864,2969,549],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4698,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598\/revisions\/4698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}