CeeLo Green and Danger Mouse’s mid-2000s collab was fun back in the day, but the statements Green made about rape victims in 2014 loom heavily over the project.
Revisiting the band’s maximalist, neon, sprawling I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it 10 years later means reckoning with who we were when instability was a frontman’s most valuable currency.
Inspired by a visit to India, Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett ground their musings on the afterlife in warm, gorgeous instrumentation with a clear, cohesive thematic anchor, but the style ultimately overwhelms the substance.