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Gorillaz
Animated band
offers diverse mix
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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
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