gorillaz demon days album video accompaniment

One reason he may have made the two similar is that people may recognise the similarity between the Blur album cover that was released 5 years before Demon Days. The source of the similarity could possibly be from Damon Albarn. The two album covers are very similar in the way that they use the same layout, of showing four animated pictures of four of the band members. To the right we can see the cover used on the front of “Blur: the best of”. The front cover shows the four animated character from a side view, split into four pictures with the artist name shown at the top, and the album name shown at the bottom.įront man, Damon Alabarn was previously in the band Blur before the Gorillaz formed. This may be because Japan love the animations created by the unique band. The four characters look of the Asian origin, which is ironic because the album was released 23 days earlier in Japan that in Britain. The 1st track of the album “intro” contains a sample from 'Dark Earth', from the soundtrack to the 1978 film ‘Dawn Of The Dead.’ This straight away shows the tone of the album and lets the listener know what they’re in for. The four characters are shown in a fictional animated world that we can see in the music videos such as the single Dirty Harry and Dare which features Sean Rider from The Happy Mondays. This was the 1st time the four animated fictional characters were shown to the world. See some of Lotia's creations below, and find his Instagram page here.This is the 2nd album from the Gorillaz, which was released in the UK on the 23 of May 2005. 'I try and build as much as I can in my head before actually putting any pieces down. In some cases, I look for focal points in the album cover that might be suggested effectively in LEGO, and work outwards from there.'Īmong the album covers that have been given the LEGO treatment are Gorillaz's 'Demon Days', Deadmau5's 'Random Album Title', Radiohead's 'The Bends', The Prodigy's 'The Fat Of The Land' and Daft Punk's 'Random Access Memories'. 'I started wondering what other cover art could be adapted into LEGO and I've been trying to refine my process ever since,' he told Loudwire. He first got inspiration for his project from listening to Pink Floyd's classic album 'Dark Side Of The Moon', when he started to think about how he could recreate the prism on the famous album cover with LEGO bricks. I move around music genres a lot because there's very little music that I don't enjoy.' Speaking about where he gets his inspiration for album covers to recreate, he said: ' got into electronic music and R&B in college, went deep into progressive rock as an adult, and recently fell back in love with '70s disco and funk. In an interview, he told Loudwire that he 'picked up digital construction using BrickLink Studio along the way, and absolutely love how much freedom, flexibility, and speed it provides to LEGO artists.' An artist has created a number of LEGO replicas of various famous album artwork, by the likes of The Prodigy, Daft Punk, Gorillaz and Aphex Twin.Īdnan Lotia is a designer who uses LEGO bricks as his main material, though he's since switched to digital LEGO creations, and he's shared images of a number of his creations via a dedicated Instagram page.

Gorillaz demon days album video accompaniment