★★★★★
Journey through the past... The songwriter's solo debut proper is his most personal statement yet... Ironically, Damon Albarn's most personal project so far doesn't open with the singer himself, but with the whiskery bohemian tones of '50s jazz-rap cat Lord Buckley, renowned for his surreal beat monologues, often delivered whilst sporting military 'tache and pith helmet...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2014-05-15
★★★★★
At first glance, Damon Albarn's debut solo album, Everyday Robots, is about the effects of the Internet and modern technology on the world. That is not the whole story, though. While a few songs do discuss everyone's favorite post-millennial topic, this is a personal album, wrapped in electronic touches and digital metaphors. It's Albarn singing about himself, in a truer sense than he has since Blur's 13 dropped 15 years ago...
- www.noripcord.com
2014-05-05
★★★★★
Damon Albarn Everyday Robots Everyday Robots (Parlophone/Warner Music Australia) -- We know Damon Albarn's voice so well that, when he opens his
debut solo album with 'Hostiles', the first impression is of some lost Blur
ballad draped on his ruffled sigh. It's not Blur, of course, but Albarn's
co-production with XL Records head Richard Russell adds to the overall
familiarity...
- www.thevine.com.au
2014-05-02
★★★★★
Between his previous high profile stints as the frontman of Blur, the brains behind funky/techno-cartoons Gorillaz, a member of world music supergroup the Good, the Bad & the Queen and the impetus behind Bobby Womack's 2012 comeback among many others, it's startling to realize this is Damon Albarn's first "pop" project under his own name...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2014-05-02
★★★★★
Tweet Albarn's World What's it sound like when Albarn strikes out on his own? Over the years, the Brit has been many things for many bands, but Everyday Robots is the first time we've ever heard him go solo. Turns out it was worth the wait. His debut is listenable and brilliantly composed. But that much we more or less expected - no, it's the personal touch on Everyday Robots that both surprised us and drove the album home...
- www.mxdwn.com
2014-04-30
★★★★★
Damon Albarn's been involved in a number of projects since Blur first took a seat on the Britpop bench. He collaborated with Tony Allen and The Clash's Paul Simonon on The Good, The Bad, & The Queen , wrote a number of albums with the Gorillaz gang, and even founded his own record label, Honest Jon's. What he's never done officially, though, is release a completely solo record. All that changes with Everyday Robots , his first...
- www.avclub.com
2014-04-29
★★★★★
Damon Albarn is often at his best when he sounds the most tired -- "This is a Low," "Tender," "Out of Time." It's a peculiar quality for a rock star, but it somehow suits this exceptionally hardworking, opera-writing, perpetually collaborating frontman of Blur, Gorillaz, and the Good, the Bad and the Queen...
- www.wonderingsound.com
2014-04-29
★★★★★
Damon Albarn's first solo album - why, you wonder, has it taken him so long? - begins with a spoken-word sample of the 1950s American hip-semantic performer Lord Richard Buckley: 'They didn't know where they was going but they knew where they was wasn't it'. There are several ways of reading this fragment. Buckley, apparently, was alluding in his original performance to the travails of a little-known Spanish explorer called Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca...
- thequietus.com
2014-04-30
★★★★★
Damon Albarn is the kind of artist who can do a million things all at once, without looking like he even broke a sweat. In his extensive, 20+ year career he has spearheaded various projects like the Gorillaz and the Brtipop legends, Blur. He has dipped his toes in writing music for operas and films and teamed up with musicians from Mali and The Democratic Republic of Congo, creating music across all genres including alt-rock, jazz and Calypso...
- www.cmj.com
2014-04-30
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