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==Musical style and themes== Sputnikmusic wrote that the album's style "is a strong foray into the melding of hip hop into [[pop music|pop]] and rock music."<ref name="sputnik">{{cite web |url=https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/7080/Gorillaz-Demon-Days/ |title=Gorillaz β Demon Days |last=Hanson |first=John |date=23 May 2006 |website=Sputnikmusic |access-date=14 October 2014}}</ref> ''[[Vice Media|Vice]]'' called the album a "[[British pop music|British pop]] masterpiece", and wrote that its music "flits between [[British hip hop|UK rap]], [[alternative rock]], piano-pop, [[trip hop|trip-hop]], reggae, and Beach Boys [[psychedelic music|psychedelia]]".<ref name="Vice">{{cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/gorillaz-demon-days-retrospective/|title=Reflections on 'Demon Days': How Gorillaz Turned Global Turmoil into a British Pop Masterpiece|work=[[Vice Media|Vice]]|first=Angus|last=Harrison|date=25 August 2016|access-date=8 August 2019}}</ref> ''The Unapologists'' called the album "both a typical [[post-9/11]] political statement and mid-[[2000s in music|2000s]] alt-rock masterpiece".<ref name="tu">{{cite web|last=Baker|first=Tom|date=5 May 2017|title=Review: Humanz A Worthy Addition To Gorillaz' Catalogue|url=http://theunapologists.com/album-review-gorillaz-humanz|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190808102118/https://theunapologists.com/album-review-gorillaz-humanz|archive-date=8 August 2019|access-date=8 August 2019|website=The Unapologists}}</ref> ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'' described the album as a "slinky [[folk music|folk]]-[[disco]]-hip-hop-[[Afro-pop]]-[[punk rock|punk]] expedition".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.spin.com/2005/12/40-best-albums-2005/spin-40-best-albums-of-2005/|title=The 40 Best Albums of 2005|website=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|date=31 December 2005|access-date=8 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127022614/https://www.spin.com/2005/12/40-best-albums-2005/spin-40-best-albums-of-2005/|archive-date=27 January 2020}}</ref> [[Robert Christgau]] labelled the album "pop trip-hop",<ref name="christgau"/> while ''Happy Mag'' listed it as a key work in the [[art rock]] style.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://happymag.tv/10-records-to-introduce-you-to-the-world-of-art-rock/|title=10 records to introduce you to the world of art-rock|website=Happy Mag|date=12 March 2020|access-date=2 November 2020|last=Saunders|first=Luke}}</ref> ''Demon Days'' prominently makes use of [[string section]]s, which were organized under the lead of Isabelle Dunn, who formed [[Demon Strings]] for the album and its later live performances. Choirs are also incorporated, including the San Fernandez Youth Chorus on "[[Dirty Harry (song)|Dirty Harry]]", and the [[London Community Gospel Choir]] on the album's final two tracks, "Don't Get Lost in Heaven" and "Demon Days". Albarn has said that the album is meant to be a depiction of a journey through the night in which each track represents a confrontation with a personal "demon". The album also has many lyrical themes centered on the destruction humans are causing worldwide; speaking about the track "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head", Albarn explained, "That came from a very naive idea, which is: what is going to happen when they've [[Oil depletion#Implications of a world peak|taken all of the oil out of the earth]]? Aren't there going to be these vast holes? Surely those holes shouldn't be empty. Surely there is a reason why they had all of this in. It's like bad plastic surgery, eventually it collapses."<ref name="gorillaz-news.livejournal.com"/> Mike Schiller of ''[[PopMatters]]'' wrote that ''Demon Days'' "[provides] its listeners not with a story arc, but a "music arc" [which] starts off slow, and honestly, not all that strange", describing the first few tracks as "[sounding] a bit like the [[Casio]]ed version of a mid-[[1990s in music|'90s]] trip-hop album."<ref name="popmatters">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.popmatters.com/gorillaz-demon-2495924650.html |title=Gorillaz: Demon Days |magazine=[[PopMatters]] |date=26 May 2005 |access-date=4 April 2012 |first=Mike |last=Schiller}}</ref> The album's opener, "Intro" contains a sample from "Dark Earth", from [[Dawn of the Dead (soundtracks)#Dawn of the Dead: The Unreleased Incidental Music|the soundtrack]] to the 1978 film [[Dawn of the Dead (1978 film)|''Dawn of the Dead'']].
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