Gorillaz lead the way with this week's most notable release, but we look at all the top efforts, including a star-studded charity record from former Pogue Shane MacGowan
Gorillaz are the choice of the week. Their third album, Plastic Beach, hits the shelves this week, and sees the animated foursome and/or Damon Albarn and chums take on a whole new array of contributors and guests. Snoop Dogg, Lou Reed, De La Soul, Mark E Smith, Gruff Rhys, Bashy and Kano all feature on the album, alongside Mos Def and Bobby Womack who, you should be aware of by now, feature on lead-off track Stylo, the deeply amazing video of which stars Bruce Willis (!) and is unembeddable, but can be seen on the band’s official site www.gorillaz.com
Pavement have pulled together 21 highlights from their career. Quarantine The Past is released on Monday, and for a limited time, their really rather good back catalogue will be available on limited vinyl – www.crookedrain.com
The collaboration of Danger Mouse and The Shins’ James Mercer, aka Broken Bells, release the fruit of their union. The self-titled album sees the pair groove in the area marked ‘late '60s techno’, which is a new one on us. Head to the site for more info – www.brokenbells.com
Motorpsycho’s new album Heavy Metal Fruit went straight in at number one in the Norwegian album charts on its release last month – it's now more readily available from this week, and sees the band push into weirder areas. Have a taste at www.motorpsycho.fix.no . Another album that’s been causing shapes to be thrown in the office is Tom Stephan’s Nervous Nitelife. The New York-raised, London-based DJ has pulled an array of large tunes together. Check out www.tomstephan.com
There are only two singles really fighting it out for top honours this week. In any other week, Goldfrapp and their Rocket single would’ve been a clear winner, but seeing as they haven’t got around to making a video yet, instead let’s watch Shane MacGowan & Friends' (such as Bobby Gillespie, Nick Cave, Sonic Youth, Paloma Faith, Chrissie Hynde, Johnny Depp) fundraiser for Haiti, a cover of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ I Put A Spell On You. All proceeds go to Haiti-related charities, and it’s slightly more listenable than Everybody Hurts…
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