10 Biggest Drop-offs In Rock History

Ever since assembling Gorillaz back in the early '00s, Damon Albarn always had the idea of the cartoon band being an ever evolving entity. Throughout albums like Demon Days, you could feel the collaborative spirit throughout the record with Albarn as the mastermind, even taking a back seat to some of the more cartoony elements on records like Plastic Beach. However, taking a back seat does make you pick up some bad habits if Humanz is any indication.

Granted, it's not like Humanz is a gigantic failure in the grand scheme of Gorillaz' lore. From start to finish, it really feels like Albarn at least tried to fulfill his goal of making a dance party for the end of the world, albeit with a lot more scatterbrained production behind it. Considering the identity of Gorillaz comes back to Damon, it's disconcerting to only hear him pop up as 2-D every now and again, often letting the guest stars dominate the tracks with varying degrees of success.

While something like this definitely worked on Plastic Beach, the execution here just makes the album feel toothless, which doesn't really help when Albarn edited out any references to Donald Trump in the lyrical content. This may have been about partying, but the end result feels a lot more morbid than you would think.