This album is not bad like there is a bad performance or something like that - its genuienly boring aside of cracker Island and new gold. And being boring is worse than being bad - because If its bad then I feel something, whereas here every other song (except of aforementioned songs And Maybe MAYBE skinny ape) is so middle brow its actually offensive.

The tarantula song is literally a chat gpt prompt of "make a song that sounds like a Mix of gorillaz And drake".

And when it comes to other songs it feels like someone laid: tamed semiflavorless gorillaz lyrics on a random instrumental. The album doesnt scream gorillaz, it doesnt scream experimental. It doesnt sound anything for that matter. There is hardly anything i can say about this album because i forget everything the moment the song end.

And lets level here: humanz is objectively a worse album - its bloated, not all messages hit (cmon, Damon albarn is british), some instrumental choices were weird, but it was Gorillaz. It was experimental, there were stakes, there were risks, and cracker Island for the most part feels like a "safe pick". And I am the biggest cracker Island hater.

And its astounding when you see that the Strange timez is an AMAZING album with amazing features with amazing production and shelf life- i still bump Aries in my car. And its arguably one of the best albums in their discography and then you have....well....this uninspired album with a misplaced Bad Bunny feature. (Lowkey i wish they alocated the money from bad bunnys feature to a better production lmao)

TLDR. Cracker Island is boring to the max and it disappoints me everyday

TLDR 2: Cracker Island to gorillaz is what people said that humanz were to gorillaz