Demon Days

Damon Albarn handed production to Danger Mouse, fresh off The Grey Album, and the cartoon band sharpened into something with real weight. Demon Days is a concept record about a world heading somewhere bad: pollution, fear, the news. Feel Good Inc., built on a bassline and a cackling De La Soul verse, became the song that played everywhere and the first Gorillaz video to pass a billion views. A children's choir closes the album. The gloom and the pop sit right next to each other.