Demon Days
Occupation
- Vocals, keyboards: 2D
- Vocals, guitar: Noodle
- Bass: Murdoc Niccals
- Drums: Russell Hobbs
Demon Days is published on 20 May 2005 second studio album and a concept album of the represented by fictional cartoon characters music project Gorillaz. The album was produced together with De La Soul, Neneh Cherry, Martina Topley -Bird, Roots Manuva, MF DOOM, Ike Turner, Bootie Brown of The Pharcyde, Shaun Ryder and Dennis Hopper, as well as with the London Community Gospel Choir and the Children's Choir of San Fernandez.
Track list
Reception
Success
The album debuted at # 1 in the UK charts at # 2 in the German charts and at # 6 in the U.S. charts and sold by 2006 worldwide over six million times. The singles Feel Good Inc. were, Dare, Dirty Harry and Kids with Guns / El Mañana coupled out of the album.
Criticism
The album was recorded favorably to the criticism and received average to very good ratings. The NME gave it 8 out of 10 possible points and described it as pretty clever (Eng. pretty clever ). In Allmusic it reached 4 ½ of 5 stars while it was out of 10 points at Pitchfork Media 6.9. The British music magazine Mojo placed it at number 18 of the 50 best albums of the year 2005.
Bonus material
- 68 State ( Japanese version) - 4:44
- People ( Japanese version) - 3:26
- Hong Kong (live at Manchester Opera House )
In Europe, the album was released in 2005, also in a more expensive, limited edition, which includes an additional DVD with extensive bonus material. On the DVD are with the piece Swagga another bonus title in audio format, several videos and animations as well as access codes to areas on the band's website, which contain additional bonus material - including the first, only available in this way bonus piece Happy Landfill for download from the MP3 audio format.
Singles
- Feel Good Inc. ( feat. De La Soul )
- Dare ( feat. Shaun Ryder )
- Dirty Harry (feat. Bootie Brown)
- Kids with Guns / El Mañana (Kids with guns feat. Neneh Cherry )