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Gorillaz Video Screening :
Gathered in a small studio in London’s Soho, you have to wonder what could possibly be so impressive about the new Gorillaz video that Britain’s journalists have been shepherded together for a screening. New single “On Melancholy Hill”...
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Gorillaz Video Screening
Gorillaz Video Screening
"On Melancholy Hill"
Gathered in a small studio in London’s Soho, you have to wonder what could possibly be so impressive about the new Gorillaz video that Britain’s journalists have been shepherded together for a screening. New single “On Melancholy Hill” takes a much softer approach than the previous two from superb album Plastic Beach, but it’s only a video, right?
Thirty seconds of the introduction proves just how wrong a person can be. Billed as a background story to the album, a gloriously animated video sees Murdoc telling the story his quest to put Gorillaz back together. Quirky, highly humorous and visually stunning, it provides a wonderful explanation to the whole Plastic Beach concept. From an android version of Noodle to kidnapping 2D before discovering the plastic beach and turning it into a sophisticated island base, the story is elaborate and ever so Gorillaz.
Yet it is the actual video, the main event so to speak, that is the most awe inspiring. Luxuriously animated and fine in detail, it sees Gorillaz take to an underground world en route to Plastic Beach. Played out to the nostalgic rhythms of “On Melancholy Hill”, it is hard not to gawp in slack-jawed wonderment at the combination of such stunning animation and beautiful music.
As the video finishes the lights go up, and no one can quite believe it. It seems that, not content with producing refreshing and unique music, Gorillaz have produced an album with a wholly captivating and luxuriously animated concept, something that truly defies superlatives.
Words: Dan Grose
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