The Fall

by Gorillaz

Overview

The hook to The Fall is that it's the first high-profile album to be recorded entirely on Apple's iPad, Damon Albarn assembling these 15 song sketches as the Gorillaz tour rolled across America in the fall of 2010. In that sense, The Fall is not dissimilar from his limited-edition 2003 solo excursion Democrazy, which was also recorded in hotel rooms while on tour, yet The Fall has a higher profile -- it's not a vinyl-only fan club release, it can be freely streamed from the Gorillaz official site and can be downloaded as part of a subscription package -- and thanks to the high-quality iPad apps it sounds polished, if not quite finished. Spectral hooks float in and out of the haze, sometimes the drum loops add definition, but for the most part The Fall is a rolling, moody aural travelogue, its song titles referencing specific cities ("Phoner to Arizona," "Detroit," "The Snake in Dallas," "Aspen Forest," "Seattle Yodel"), yet the music feels attached to no specific place -- it feels like a reflection of its time, namely, the autumn Gorillaz spent touring the U.S. It's an aural journal, a sonic sketchbook that carries much of the same palette as Plastic Beach, yet it's muted to the point that all the colors smear, the music taking on the same washed-out impressionistic qualities of The Good, the Bad & the Queen. Appealing as this may be, The Fall winds up a little ephemeral, its pleasures as fleeting as the scenery passing outside the windows of a tour bus. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date:	07/19/2019
Label:	Parlophone / Warner Bros.
UPC:	0190295491215

Tracks

1. Phone to Arizona
2. Revolving Doors
3. HillBilly Man
4. Detroit
5. Shy-Town
6. Little Pink Plastic Bags
7. The Joplin Spider
8. The Parish of Space Dust
9. The Snake in Dallas
10. Amarillo
11. The Speak It Mountains
12. Aspen Forest
13. Bobby in Phoenix
14. California and the Slipping of the Sun
15. Seattle Yodel

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Gorillaz   Primary Artist,Synthesizer
Bobby Womack   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals,Featured Artist
Damon Albarn   Primary Artist,Vocals,Vocoder,Synthesizer
Jamie Hewlett   Primary Artist,Vocals,Director
Paul Simonon   Bass,Guitar (Bass)
Mike Smith   Piano
Mick Jones   Guitar,Guitar,Vocals
Seye Adelekan   Ukulele
Darren Evans   Vocals
Jesse Hackett   Keyboards
Archie McPhee Yodelling Pickle   Featured Artist
James R. Grippo   Zither
Seb Monk   Director
Tanyel Vahdettin   Vocals
Jeff Wootton   Guitar

Technical Credits

Bobby Womack   Composer
Mike Smith   Recording,Engineer,Photography
Gorillaz   Composer,Engineer,Producer,Recording
Damon Albarn   Composer,Producer
Jamie Hewlett   Composer,Photography
Stephen Sedgwick   Mixing,Engineer,Producer,Recording,Mixing Engineer
Geoff Pesche   Mastering,Mastering Engineer
J.C. Hewlett   Design,Artwork
Zombie Flesh Eaters   Design,Artwork
Oswald Lee Henderson   Photography
Seb Monk   Editing,Photography