Gorillaz "Plastic Beach"

Like you couldn't wait for the disc to get started; this one takes two tracks to do that. We have "Orchstral Intro (Featuring Sinfonia ViVa)" that proves this disc is going to be huge. We're still waiting to be let in, and it's starting to tick us off. Sappy strings, you trying to make me feel bad for you? I had to wait a minute oh nine before... What's the commotion? Who...wait a second what's with the horns. That's why they were so boistrous...Snoop is relaying the message:"Welcome To The World of The Plastic Beach," and the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble bring the smoke. The National Orchestra For Arabic Music kicks this song off before Bashy's distictive delivery and voice starts the rhyme-spitting, "No castaway, no survivor/I ain't lost and this ain't shipwrecked/I feel small in this big wide world/and mommy ain't said 'Honey, I shrunk the kids' yet " accompanied by Kano,who "Just found it like Nemo/on the d-low./I don't know if it's greener, but it's green though:/On the other side of the fence./Bind to the ends./Look:/No fence, no stress, no rent, no superficial sh8t, /This real flow." and a great rythm section on "White Flag". "Rhinestone Eyes" finally produces Albarns distinct voice with his laidback semi-sleepy delivery style and plenty of moog. The first single has "Stylo" with a disco bassline and beat alongside soulful vocals of Bobby Womack and the wordplaywordsmith Mos Def. Better watch this "Superfast Jellyfish" or it will sting your  temporal lobe and form a pimple that holds this song constantly in your memory with it's cute and silly speaking passages (Real short), witty wordplay from Gruff Rhys and DE LA SOUL as they"All hail king Neptune and his water breathers/No snail thing too quick for his water feeders/Don't waste time wit cha net, our net worth/Is set, ready, go, many know others (what?), and the funky horns, singalong chorus and hook, with a little autotune. "Empire Ants" is a slow dreamy number that by the time it hits 2:28 becomes a different animal with vocals contributed from a Little Dragon. So I hear it's better to let the"Glitter Freeze." Any thoughts? Ringing synths and low bass-bump that makes way for the intergalactic visitor known as Mark E. Smith. "Some Kind of Nature" features Lou Reed, and may have you running  "On Melacholy Hill" with it's breezy yet ironic instrumentals that sound much more positive and fun than the title suggests. Congratulations! You have won the "Sweepstakes," but since we don't have enough money to pay you your prize we will have to pay you in rhymes from Mos Def  and  trippy brassy instrumentals from the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble. Can't say no one ever wins these things. "Plastic Beach" features Mick Jones and Paul Simonon with its techno-bloop funk. "To Binge" featuring Little Dragon has reggae on the mind of organs. "Cloud of Unknowing" features the soulful vocals of Bobby Womack and sinfonia VIVA in a slow contemplatiive number with sentimental strings toward the end. Who's got the loot? The "Pirate Jet" stole the organ to use it for their selfish purposes, and those fish cannot escape the clutches of the plastic handbags. If I could only choose 8 plastic sailboats I would choose: Welcome to the World of Plastic Beach, White Flag, Stylo, Superfast Jellyfish, On Melancholy Hill, Sweepstakes, To Binge, and Cloud of Unknowing.