You will like 'Everyday Robots' if you like music with a personal touch

Everyday Robots Music: Damon Albarn, Warner music Rating: 4 stars
Damon Albarn is best known as the frontman of Britpop pioneer band Blur. While the band changed from their earlier pop to more a mature and evolved sound thanks to Albarn and Graham Coxon’s expanding musical tastes, the group Gorillaz was more like a project than a band and their style of hip-hop music was a blend of various kinds.
With Everyday Robots, Albarn chucks out the hip hop and goes for pretty, if melancholic melodies with some electronic touches here and there. The album cover shows Albarn sitting on a stool, looking like he is lost in thought. It’s a mood that accurately sums of the album. The songs are mostly self-absorbed ruminations of life by Albarn.
If you are not familiar with his work, you might find the songs a little self-indulgent. Nonetheless, the music is uniformly soothing to listen to. The experimentation is chucked aside and Brian Eno (the producer) has helped create songs like Everyday Robots (“We are everyday robots on our phones”), Lonely Press Play and Hollow Ponds that are soulfully sung as well as simple and straightforward in the message.
Hostiles has Albarn’s most charming vocals just accompanied by a simple finger-picked acoustic guitar riff. If you like music with a personal message, you’ll enjoy this album.