The Singles Collection 2001-2011 by Gorillaz
The Singles Collection: 2001-2011 is a compilation album released by British virtual band Gorillaz on 25 November 2011. The album is a collection of the group's singles released between 2001 and 2011. The album is available in four different editions: standard, deluxe, 12" vinyl and 7" single box set. The years 2001-2011 in title of the compilation are somewhat misleading, seeing as "Tomorrow Comes Today" was first released in 2000 (albeit as an EP, the actual single itself was released in 2002), while the newest featuring track, "Doncamatic", was released in 2010.
Genre-mashing floor-fillers (“Dare”), wistful, synth-driven ballads (“On Melancholy Hill”) candy-coated surrealist rap (“Superfast Jellyfish”): there’s hardly a patch of musical terrain that isn’t covered in this punchy edit of the cartoon quartet’s decade-long recording career. Nestled next to each other—and packaged with new Daley hook-up “Doncamatic”—there’s detectable growth, and boundless invention, across Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn’s three records. But there’s surprising cohesion too and it all amounts to a peerless collection of shape-shifting, collaborative pop.
