Cracker Island - Gorillaz: Review
Gorillaz are a group that really need no introduction. The genre-blending music project of Blur frontman Damon Albarn who has been weaving various styles and collaborators into infectious music for over 20 years. Cracker Island is the eighth album from the band and it follows 2020's Song Machine which was built around the collaborations it featured on every song. Review by Lav: My love for various Damon Albarn projects has never been a secret. I've often called Blur one of my favorite bands of all time, Plastic Beach was among my favorite albums of the 2010s, and Damon's last solo album The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows was one of my favorites of that year. But since 2010 Gorillaz have had a mixed bag of releases marked by forgettable moments like The Fall and The Now Now . Even though I think Humanz is over-hated, there's no denying that the second decade of Gorillaz wasn't as strong as their first. To me, this album shou...