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Gorillaz Animated band offers diverse mix CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 first appearance, juxtaposing sim ple sounds with complex lyrics and a string section rising in in tensity. Automator makes subtle changes, adding his trademark electronic harmonica and a piano arrangement that brings the song to its climax. Gorillaz confuses the listen er even more with “Man Research.” This driving dance song could pass as an authentic piece of trance music, further ev idence of Automator and Albam’s aesthetic genius. Albam sings like a 70s disco star, using layered vocals and moaning melodies. On “Punk,” maybe the only appropriately titled song on the whole album, Albam bleats over 3-chord guitar licks, soul claps and atmospheric space sounds. Clocking in at just 1:32, the song manages to encapsulate the uni versal attitude and motto of punk rockers: keep it short and sweet. “I know you like that, you wanna try that, it’s like a flash back ... taking you to another landscape is my mandate,” Del raps on “Rock the House.” Living up to his pseudonym, Del gets ex tremely funky on this track, a throwback to old-school hip-hop. Automator supplies a trumpet loop that almost commands the listener to hum. The eleventh sons. “19-2000 ” is also slated for release as the second single. During the song, which rivals “Rock the House” in funkiness, a playful ode to being * obliterated by a bomb unfolds as Albarn lollygags with Hatori and Tina Weymouth. “Ml Al” may be the scariest pop song since “Thriller”. The track opens with a sample from the movie Day of the Dead, a pe culiar addition that adds to the song’s oddness. A raucous com bination of guitar strums and thunderous snare shots, this song could easily have been an unre leased track from Led Zeppelin. It ends having given no clue about its purpose. The album slows down, much to the listener’s relief, with its next song, “Dracula." The song summons the sounds of calypso, providing more comedy than the title indicates. Proving anticli mactic, the inane but gentle al bum starts winding down with this song. The sound of soda being opened and poured begins “Left Hand Suzuki Method,” the last song on the album. Hatori says, in both Japanese and English, “The most important thing is lis tening to the record of your .mu sic. It makes them get a musical sense and gets to the point of the fast progress.” The statement is as understandable as the album itself. Not to be outdone, Automator completes the absur dity with a lively violin sample and an old man saying “oh.” Gorillaz may be the most the atrical and dramatic musical of fering since the Beatles or the Who, the most wildly exuberant since the Talking Heads. Just re member you are listening to a project, not just an album. It’s like listening to a movie. Evans racks up CMA nominations Album Born to Fly picks up seven mentions BY JIM PATTERSON ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER NASHVILLE, TENN. (AP) - Bluegrass got a boost and singer Sara Evans was declared a star by the Country Music Association, which announced nominees Tuesday for its annual awards show. Evans, who hit platinum sales with her third album, Born to Fly, led all nominees with sev en mentions. The old-time bluegrass, blues and country on the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack ac counted for four nominations, and young bluegrass trio Nickel Creek picked up two. Evans, 30, was nominated for best female vocalist, best single, best song, best video and best al bum for Born to Fly. She also got dual nominations as a producer for her single and album. The nomination for best fe male vocalist lifts the Missouri born Evans to the level of more established stars such as Faith Hill, Martina McBride, Lee Ann Womack and Trisha Yearwood, who also were nominated in the category. “That's excellent company,” Evans said. “The one that I want ed most of all was album of the year. That album was such a la bor of love for me. I needed it to be my big breakthrough album.” The nominations were an nounced at Adelphia Coliseum by the duo Brooks & Dunn, who scored four nominations, and Jo Dee Messina. Winners will be announced Nov. 7 at the Grand Ole Opry House during a show broadcast live on CBS. Vince Gill will be the host for the 10th straight year. Many of country's established names turned up again in the ma jor categories, with the notable exception of Gill. There also was no nomination for Reba McEntire as best enter tainer, despite a year in which she was a hit on Broadway in Annie Get Your Gun, headlined the successful “Girls Night Out” tour with McBride, and prepared to launch a sitcom. Nominees for the top award of best entertainer were Brooks & Dunn, Tim McGraw, the Dixie Chicks, Alan Jackson and George Strait. Best male vocalist nomi nees were Jackson, McGraw, Strait, Toby Keith and Brad Paisley. Some of the biggest stars in country music, Garth Brooks, Shania Twain and the Dixie Chicks, spent much of the year on hiatus. While they were gone, the rawer-than-mainstream sound track of O Brother, Where Art Thou? sold more than 2 million copies. O Brother is nominated for best album, and its “I am a Man of Constant Sorrow” is up for best single. Bpth were produced by T Bone Burnett, as were two O Brother nominees for best vocal event: “Didn't Leave Nobody But the Baby” and “I'll Fly Away.” Nickel Creek, a trio that plays bluegrass instruments in a non traditional style, was nominated for best vocal group and for the Horizon Award for acts with promise. “What an amazing year foi bluegrass,” said Sean Watkins who plays guitar and sings wit! Nickel Creek. “It was very unex pected. and we are hugely stokec to be considered.” Brooks & Dunn were alsc nominated for best vocal duo, sin gle (“Ain't Nothing 'Bout You’” and album (Steers & Stripes). Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn each scored two separate nomi nations, for helping to produce the album and single. The 2001 inductees into the Country Music Hall of Fame, who already had been announced, are the Everly Brothers, Sam Phillips. Waylon Jennings, Bill Anderson, the Delmore Brothers, Don Gibson, Homer & Jethro, the Jordanaires, Don Law, The Louvin Brothers, Ken Nelson and Webb Pierce. 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