Gorillaz: Humanz review – Albarn pulls his punches

(Parlophone)
Gorillaz’s on-trend party album brings reassuring strangeness and a clever use of collaborators, but little real-world clout“The sky is falling baby/ Drop that ass ’fore it crash,” chants Vince Staples on the nagging Ascension, the first song on Gorillaz’s soundtrack for a party at the end of the world. Billed as a nonstop, 125bpm-and-over playlist, the return of Gorillaz after seven years largely delivers on the promise of a rolling vibe – one wi