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>Love Strings, some of the best Gorillaz songs have string arrangements (or synth strings in the case of Sound Check (Gravity))
>Damon has an in-house string section called Demon Strings that are still active
>Huge String Ensemble showed up for the mystery show where they played The Mountain in full just like the Plastic Beach tour
>Album has a bunch of collaborations with Plastic Beach alumni and Arabic singers
>Interview with Damon and the tracklisting makes this album out to be a spiritual successor to Sea-Sides / the Plastic Beach sequel we never got
>Expects strings all over the place for this new album
>First new single is a collaboration with one of the Synth-poppiest bands to ever Synth-Pop
>The Radio DJ is so impressed that he plays it 3x straight
>mfw
SPARKS is a great band that was probably on Damon's wishlist at some point so I'll let it slide, but I want to hear some STRINGS
If this ends up being like Humanz where it's great live but the studio album's production sounds like trash I'm gonna flip