Some themes are woven throughout the record - there's a political undercurrent, although the upheavals of Trump and Brexit are never addressed directly there's a heavy reliance on R&B and hip-hop - but the album seems pleasingly scattershot as it bounces from guest to guest. Maybe this is why Humanz feels wild and unruly in a way Plastic Beach never did: the emphasis is on the individual cuts, not the grand concept. Plastic Beach - the 2010 album that served as the group's last major opus ( The Fall, released just months later, was that LP's bittersweet coda) - found Albarn stepping toward the center stage but on Humanz he recedes, giving his collaborators the spotlight and softening whatever complicated narrative he and illustrator Jamie Hewlett devised for their cartoon group's fourth phase. On 2017's Humanz, Damon Albarn returns to Gorillaz after a seven-year hiatus - a period when he busied himself with two operas, a solo album, and a Blur reunion - and reconnects with the collaborative instincts that drove the band's first two albums.
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