Luke Judge

Like a long plane ride calmly careening through the air at 600 mph, the beautiful building classical piece from England’s orchestral “sinfonia ViVA,” begins Gorillaz latest endeavor Plastic Beach. Signaling there is always more than first glance, the album mixes classical and hip hop and nearly every genre in between for easily one of the best recordings from any virtual band. Zing. 

Plastic Beach’s opening track lets hip-hop icon Snoop Dogg greet the crowd on “Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach.”  The intro fills the bulk of the tune, mostly setting the sonic mood for the rest of the album with a hypnotic whirling background created before Snoop finally takes his verse.   Next it is another classical interlude to begin, but this time, it is The Lebanese National Orchestra

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