Because everyone thought it was a gimmick. Hewlett was excited by the prospect of a second Gorillaz album, saying, "Let's repeat the same process, but do it better. And that will happen to us in our lifetime." And then you wake up in the morning with this nightmare in your head and it's blue sky and beautiful sand, which looks fantastic now but was probably something else millions of years ago. There are little satellite towns in the middle of these semi deserts that are absolutely on their knees. "Dust bowls, loose earth rapidly turning into desert. It was basically dead trees as far as the eye can see," Albarn recalls. Despite this, the album's main source of inspiration actually came about as a result of Albarn's train journey from Beijing to Mongolia where he, his partner and six-year-old daughter spent a day travelling through what Albarn describes as a "weird, unspoken, forgotten part of China. By the time Albarn was ready to start writing and recording material for the Gorillaz movie, the whole idea had already been scrapped, although ideas from the movie's script were still used, including the themes of being driven by ego and the world being trapped in an endless night. While Jamie Hewlett was working with his team on a script for a possible Gorillaz movie, Damon Albarn was still recording Think Tank with Blur. Spin later included it in their list of The 300 Best Albums of 1985–2014. Complex included it on their list of 100 Best Albums of the Complex Decade, placing it at number 43. Uncut ranked it at 75 on their list of top 150 albums of the decade. Spin ranked Demon Days as the fourth-best album of 2005, while Mojo ranked it at number eighteen on their year-end list and hailed the album as a "genre-busting, contemporary pop milestone." NME placed it 98th on their list of 100 greatest albums of the decade. Almost all of the visuals associated with the album were designed by Gorillaz co-creator Jamie Hewlett as his design company, Zombie Flesh Eaters. These included interactive features on the Gorillaz website, a total of four animated music videos, virtual interview sessions with the band and animatics for each song. Much like 2001's Gorillaz, the release of Demon Days and its respective tour were accompanied by various multimedia. The album features the singles " Feel Good Inc.", " DARE", " Dirty Harry" and " Kids with Guns"/" El Mañana". The album has sold eight million copies worldwide. charts at #6, outperforming the band's 2001 debut, Gorillaz. Albarn brought in Danger Mouse as producer.ĭemon Days entered the UK charts at #1 and the U.S. The album features contributions from De La Soul, Neneh Cherry, Martina Topley-Bird, Roots Manuva, MF DOOM, Ike Turner, Bootie Brown of the Pharcyde, Shaun Ryder, Dennis Hopper, the London Community Gospel Choir, and the Children's Choir of San Fernandez. Demon Days is the second studio album by British virtual band Gorillaz, released in May 2005.
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