digipak analysis

1. Digipak Analysis: Gorillaz Demon Days
This is the 2nd album from the Gorillaz ,
which was released in the UK on the 23
of may 2005. This was the 1st time the
four animated fictional characters were
shown to the world. The four
characters are shown in a fictional
animated world that we can see in the
music videos such as the single Dirty
Harry and Dare which features Sean
Rider from The Happy Mondays. The 1st
track of the album “intro” contains a
sample from "Dark Earth", from the
soundtrack to the 1978 film Dawn Of
The Dead. This straight away shows the
tone of the album and lets the listener
know what their in for. The four
characters look of the Asian origin,
which is ironic because the album was
released 23 days earlier in Japan that in
Britain. This may be because Japan love
the animations created by the unique
band.
The front cover shows the four
animated character from a side view,
split into four pictures with the artist
name shown at the top, and the album
name shown at the bottom. Front man,
Damon Alabarn was previously in the
band Blur before the Gorillaz formed.
To the left we can the cover used on the
front of “ Blur the best of”. The two
album covers are very similar in the
way that they use the same layout, of
showing four animated pictures of four
of the band members. The source of
the similarity could possibly be from
Damon Albarn. One reason he may
have made the two similar is that
people may recognise the similarity
between the Blur album cover that was
released 5 years before Demon Days.
By Damon making the two albums
similar, he could possibly attract Blur
fans to listen to Demon Days.