Little Dragon vocalist Yukimi Nagano is drowned out by the band, providing little to so-so songs like "Empire Ants".
Bodin, Källgren Wallin, Wirenstrand and singing percussionist Yukimi Nagano played a pivotal role on "Empire Ants", a starring cut from Gorillaz' Plastic Beach album of last year.
Low point: A large portion of the crowd on the left of the field spends five minutes watching a man atop a wooden pergola, exposing first his arse and then his penis before descending amid a hail of bottles, a spectacle with which the electro-soul elegance of Empire Ants just cannot compete.
But it's when Albarn takes centre stage that Plastic Beach really thrills: Empire Ants is a trickling ballad to rank alongside Blur's best, and On Melancholy Hill is a hazy pop gem with the sugary 80s sparkle of Strawberry Switchblade or early Lightning Seeds.
The jury seems to be out as to whether Little Dragon's Yukimi Nagano is singing on the record as Gorillaz character Noodle, or herself, but either way both "Empire Ants" and "To Binge" are the standout highlights from Plastic Beach.
Ants also are quite popular inspiration for many science-fiction insectoids, such as the Formics of Ender's Game, the Bugs of Starship Troopers, the giant ants in the films Them! and Empire of the Ants, Marvel Comics' super hero Ant-Man, antsants mutated into super-intelligence in Phase IV.
H.G. Wells wrote about intelligent ants destroying human settlements in Brazil and threatening human civilization in his 1905 science-fiction short story, The Empire of the Ants.
But in Empire they are ants, which seems a little more natural.
I learned all this from Microids' real-time strategy game Empire of the Ants.
Knee-deep in a swamp for six weeks making Empire Of The Ants.
