This screengrab, though… this one works just fine, I reckon…

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Al Shipley: The Blurillaz juggernaut, a massively successful franchise based on the idea of combining a washed up Britpop singer with washed up ‘alternative’ rappers, continues to stupefy me. This song doesn’t sound like it will be ubiquitous for the next year, but I thought that with “Clint Eastwood” and “Feel Good Inc.”, and both times it turned out to be wishful thinking.
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Ian Mathers: I actually like Albarn’s rather diffident vocals, but does anyone else kind of wish they’d just given the whole song – hell, the whole album – to Womack? He sounds great, and surprisingly natural, over the burbling electronic backing.
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Martin Skidmore: Womack is of course long past his best, and just roars some random lines that could be outtakes from something like “Across 110th Street” over the sophisticated, rather dark electro backing. I always kind of want to hate Gorillaz, but actually this is mostly very appealing, thanks to the best vocals I’ve been faced with on the Jukebox in ages.
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Michaelangelo Matos: I’m sure there are better singers they could have gotten than Bobby Womack, who sounds pretty blown out, but his gravitas is welcome. Damon’s never been a favorite singer, but his masterminding is still astute, and I like the way this bounds in place. Give him this much: he has an ear for plastic synths.
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Alfred Soto: A track with land so arable that even Damon Albarn can flower, even with Bobby W reduced to soul signifier. Still, its burbling electro-bass foundation serves as anesthetic: these guys have done this many times. They might as well hire Aretha and George Michael for a minimalist synth-happy remake of their “I Knew You Were Waiting for Me”. As long as they can lift Mos Def’s superb bit here whole.
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Matt Cibula: Not feeling this the way Damon probably wants me to, but his stunt casting works about halfway; i.e., Bobby Womack is God on a stick, but Mos Def does what he usually does. Forced myself to listen to this without watching the video; it probably needs the visual element.
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Doug Robertson: First time I heard this I didn’t actually realise that it was a new song, I just assumed it was something I’d heard before and had forgotten about. Is that a good thing? Sure it’s an undeniable talent to create something that instantly sounds familiar and fills you with a warm feeling of recognition, and this is a good song, with a riff that’s as bouncily laid back as an over used rubber band, but shouldn’t new music sound more, well… new?
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