The way the tracklist is sequenced is inspired. It all swirls into and out of The Manifesto, like a hurricane, and Proof's verse is at the center. Black Thought's verses are like anchor points across the album.

First record in a long time to make me tear up

Top 3 Gorillaz.

The music & harmonies moved me beyond belief.

I've been having spiritual battles as of late & this restored everything.

Kinda' like a healthy release.

Sounds corny but s*** was super therapeutic.

Needed a break from all the rap s*** too.

Damn near 30 years in & they're putting something this beautiful out?

Crazy

Might be my AOTY so far & this thread deserves waaaaay more than 13 pages.

Love reading this. Gorillaz always evokes an emotional response from me.

Ik you didnt ask me but I felt like answering. In no order

Dirty Harry
Feel Good Inc
Spitting Out The Demons
New Genius
Left Hand Suzuki Method
Last Living Souls
Sweepstakes
Fire Coming Out Of The Monkeys Head
Tomorrow Comes Today
DARE

These are all songs I've grown up with and listened to countlessly my whole life so I can't put anything on The Mountain in here yet. Except I'm very close to putting Orange County in

OPEN THE DOOR!!!

Perfect description of the album

this song is so amaziing outside the cringey “empty dream machine without you” part

Bruh how pretentious could you be you just admired how thought provoking it is without hearing it

Which part of my post mentions thought provoking ?

Honestly, I'm glad he's found his groove back with Gorillaz. This s*** is great.

Beautiful album

not really sure why but this album didn’t really click for me on first listen. it kind of all blended together. but on successive listens i actually really appreciate that about it. its cohesive and ambitious as hell. a much slower burn than the last album, which was more like a quick and dirty short collection of solid songs. this is a lot more cinematic and needs to be chewed on a bit. i really respect the direction he went with this.

I need a whole documentary about this album

Deadass. They released a little behind the scenes on IG but yeah, I need a whole 1:30 min doc. I

hmm rly don’t know if I have this over humans or not I do like humanz quite a bit other than 3 songs this has very few misses tho

I see a lot of love for this album.
I have to listen more.

On the first listens, the album is to “pretty” for my taste.
Will have to spin it more

Tour

So this is growing on me incredibly quickly and I loved it on first listen. What a special project. I’m seeing the arguments about best since Plastic Beach and I can’t say I’m disagreeing.

I may have to send it

Thats been my reason why im putting this off until i can really pay attention to the intricacies. Judging by the singles and the videos seems like they going further than they ever have. What i heard is beautiful but dense as hell.