Cave World is the third studio album by Swedish post-punk band Viagra Boys . It was released on 8 July 2022 through Year0001 . A deluxe version of the album was released on 13 January 2023, which featured four more tracks.
77-569: Cave World was written during the COVID-19 lockdowns , which serves a basis for much of the album, particularly with songs referring to hesitancy to COVID-19 vaccines . The album also was influenced by the origin of humans during the Paleolithic era (particularly cavemen ), conspiracy theories , especially conspiracy theories and misinformation related to the COVID-19 pandemic , and QAnon supporters. Recording took place in winter 2021–22, during
154-548: A 2005 Wired Rave Award. The Grey Album got the attention of Damon Albarn , who enlisted Danger Mouse to produce Gorillaz ' second studio album, Demon Days . Demon Days earned Burton a Grammy Award nomination for Producer of the Year . Danger Mouse's next project was The Mouse and the Mask , a collaboration with MF Doom (as Danger Doom ) about and for Cartoon Network 's Adult Swim . The two had previously collaborated on
231-449: A 30% difference among border-counties where stay-at-home orders were imposed. Another study that compared the impact of 'less restrictive interventions' on the spread of COVID-19 in Sweden and South Korea , with mandatory stay-at home orders in 8 other countries, such as France and Spain , did not find evidence for greater disease control in the countries with more restrictions. However,
308-544: A 40-minute instrumental song containing various statements she had made. In January 2007, Danger Mouse produced another collaboration with Damon Albarn on The Good, the Bad & the Queen , along with The Clash bassist Paul Simonon , former The Verve guitarist Simon Tong and afrobeat pioneer and Africa 70 drummer Tony Allen . In March 2008, The Odd Couple , the second album of his and CeeLo Green's Gnarls Barkley project,
385-416: A break in touring in support of their previous album, Welfare Jazz . The album's music style was described by Ross Horton of The Line of Best Fit as a "heady brew of trad punk , post-punk , country and new wave and their look is a combination of unlicensed doorman menace and tracksuit couch slacker". Mark Tremblay described the album as a fusion of post-punk and new rave , and described some of
462-468: A compilation produced alongside 30th Century Records-signee producer Sam Cohen. Connected to Amazon 's eponymous TV series , this album contains covers of 1960s classics by contemporary artists like Beck, Norah Jones, Kelis , Andrew VanWyngarden , The Shins, and more. In June 2017, Portugal. The Man released Woodstock , their follow-up to 2013's Evil Friends ; both of which featured production from Danger Mouse. In June 2017, he collaborated with Run
539-442: A director's role within music, which is what I tried to do on this album ( St. Elsewhere )... I can create different kinds of musical worlds, but the artist needs the desire to go into that world... Musically, there is no one who has the career I want. That's why I have to use film directors as a model." Since 2005, Danger Mouse (as a producer and as an artist with Gnarls Barkley) has been nominated for 12 Grammy Awards: Producer of
616-483: A follow-up to Ghetto Pop Life entitled Kill Your Heroes . It was scheduled to be released in summer of 2006, but its release was pushed back to an undetermined date. He was also working on an album with The Black Keys and Ike Turner . Turner's death was expected to cancel the album, but The Black Keys and Danger Mouse released Attack & Release in April 2008. Some songs must have been recorded by Turner, however, as
693-449: A full illustrated jewel case with a blank CD-R included in it. The CD-R was to be labeled: "For Legal Reasons, enclosed CD-R contains no music. Use it as you will." On November 8, 2009, Paste magazine named Danger Mouse the "Best Producer of the Decade (2000–2009)." Together with James Mercer , Danger Mouse (billed by his real name, Brian Burton) formed Broken Bells . The project
770-427: A level low enough to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Since the beginning of the pandemic, Google has consistently collected data on movements, showing rapid declines in public activity long before legal restrictions were imposed. An April 2020 poll found that 93% of Americans voluntarily chose to only leave home when necessary, regardless of legal restrictions. A February 2021 review of 348 articles concluded there
847-570: A nationwide or local basis in 63 countries, affecting approximately 47 percent of the world's student population. Beginning with the first lockdown in China's Hubei province and nationwide in Italy in March 2020, lockdowns continued to be implemented in many countries throughout 2020 and 2021. On 24 March 2020, the entire 1.3 billion population of India was ordered to stay at home during its lockdown , making it
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#1732883706345924-464: A posthumous Danger Mouse produced album has been mentioned, and another collaboration with MF Doom. Danger Mouse produced and crafted beat structures with Beck for Beck 's album Modern Guilt , which was released in July 2008. In April 2009, he and Helena Costas released an album as Joker's Daughter titled The Last Laugh . Danger Mouse was listed as one of Esquire ' s 75 most influential people of
1001-668: A series of remix CDs and records under the stage name Danger Mouse. He performed in a mouse outfit because he was too shy to show his face, and took his name from the English cartoon series Danger Mouse . Burton moved to Britain for a couple of years, living in New Cross in London and working at the Rose pub near London Bridge. While there, he sent a demo to Lex Records , which signed him. Burton relocated to Los Angeles; his first original releases under
1078-452: A third Broken Bells album with James Mercer entitled Into The Blue (stylized all caps). In an interview for The New York Times magazine, Danger Mouse was compared to a film auteur , basing his music production philosophy on the cinematic philosophy of directors like Woody Allen . "Woody Allen was an auteur: he did his thing, and that particular thing was completely his own", he said. "That's what I decided to do with music. I want to create
1155-581: Is an American musician and record producer. He came to prominence in 2004 when he released The Grey Album , which combined vocal performances from Jay-Z 's The Black Album with instrumentals from the Beatles' The Beatles , also known as The White Album . In 2008, Esquire named him one of the "75 most influential people of the 21st century". Danger Mouse formed Gnarls Barkley with CeeLo Green and produced its albums St. Elsewhere and The Odd Couple . In 2009, he collaborated with James Mercer of
1232-482: Is pitched somewhere between the deeply sexual and the profoundly sinister." Winwood gave specific praise to the tracks "Ain't No Thief", "Return to Monke", and "Creepy Crawlers". Laveia Thomas, of Clash praised the instrumentation on Cave World , particularly the use of the saxophone throughout the album. Thomas said that Cave World "paints rock'n'roll through a rose-tinted glass – distorted, warped and just completely fascinating". Thomas would go further to say that
1309-432: Is thought to be at least partly attributable to this difference in policy. Similarly, modelling on Australian data concluded that achieving zero community transmission through a strict lockdown lowers healthcare and economic costs compared to less stringent measures that allow transmission to continue, and warned that early relaxation of restrictions have greater costs. This " zero community transmission " approach
1386-608: The United Kingdom , the United States , Australia , Germany , the Netherlands , Canada and New Zealand . The motivations for and sizes of these protests have varied. Some have been spurred by the economic and social impacts of lockdowns, but have also been associated with misinformation related to the pandemic , conspiracy theories and anti-vaccination . Notes In the table, pandemic lockdowns are defined as
1463-634: The United Kingdom ; while around 200 million people were under lockdown in Latin America. In Germany, 35% of workers worked from home in addition to their regular on-site duties, while 26% worked from home exclusively. Countries and territories around the world enforced lockdowns of varying stringency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic . Some include total movement control while others have enforced restrictions based on time. In many cases, only essential businesses are allowed to remain open. Schools, universities and colleges have closed either on
1540-539: The University of Georgia featuring OutKast and Goodie Mob . Afterwards, Burton says he approached CeeLo Green, a member of Goodie Mob, and gave him an instrumental demo tape. He suggested and negotiated CeeLo's appearance on the 26' Remix of the Danger Mouse and Jemini record. When Burton met CeeLo for this project, he shared some beats which led them to collaborate as Gnarls Barkley. From 1998 to 2003, Burton created
1617-553: The World Health Organization (WHO) have published statements noting the impact of the lockdowns on livelihoods and food security , and David Nabarro , WHO Special Envoy on COVID-19 stated in October 2020 that "lockdowns just have one consequence that you must never ever belittle, and that is making poor people an awful lot poorer". There have also been a number of protests worldwide in opposition to lockdowns, including in
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#17328837063451694-516: The 2015 album by rapper ASAP Rocky . In November 2015 Danger Mouse launched his own record label, 30th Century Records. Danger Mouse was announced as the producer for the Red Hot Chili Peppers eleventh album and that he would replace Rick Rubin , the producer of the band's previous six albums dating back to 1991. Production began in February 2015. The production was halted due to an injury
1771-492: The 21st century. Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse were due to release an album in the summer of 2009 entitled Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse Present: Dark Night of the Soul (together with a 100+ photo book with photographs by David Lynch ). Due to a dispute with EMI the album was not released officially until July 12, 2010. However, the BBC reported that Danger Mouse planned to release
1848-789: The COVID-19 pandemic have been cited as examples. Some researchers have noted that COVID-19 pandemic restrictions have come with mental health costs , compounded by those caused by the COVID-19 pandemic itself. Due to their closure, educational institutions worldwide transitioned to online learning. Teachers and faculty had to learn new ways to engage with students while in a COVID-19 pandemic. Examples of online teaching tools are podcasts, videos, and virtual classrooms. UN Women warned in an April 2020 report that COVID-19 pandemic restrictions exacerbate gender inequalities and have led to an increase in domestic violence . Many women were being forced to 'lockdown' at home with their abusers at
1925-551: The COVID-19 pandemic, video-communications became an easy-to-use quick-to-learn tool for many people, and the anxiety to contract COVID-19 could have counterbalanced some patients' low level of trust in technology. For these reasons, most patients accepted to receive a video-consultation in spite of the traditional in-person visit and trusted telemedicine. In late 2023, former Director of the National Institutes of Health Francis Collins went viral online amongst critics of
2002-517: The Danger Mouse remix of Zero 7 's "Somersault", on the Prince Po track "Social Distortion", and on Gorillaz ' "November Has Come". A year later, Danger Doom released a follow-up EP called Occult Hymn . The 7-track EP features new songs, and remixes from The Mouse & The Mask , and was released as a free download on Adult Swim's site. In 2006, Danger Mouse and CeeLo as Gnarls Barkley released their first album, St. Elsewhere , which includes
2079-502: The Internet and became very popular with both the general audience and critics, with Rolling Stone calling it the ultimate remix record and Entertainment Weekly ranking it the best record of that year. He discussed his feelings about any controversy the album may have created in the documentary Alternative Freedom . Danger Mouse was named among the Men of the Year by GQ in 2004 and won
2156-515: The Jewels and Big Boi to create the song "Chase Me" for the 2017 film Baby Driver . In May 2018, he produced the acclaimed album Wide Awake! by Parquet Courts and in 2019 he collaborated with Karen O to create the album Lux Prima . The album has been met with generally favorable review by critics. On August 12, 2022, he released a collaborative studio album Cheat Codes with The Roots emcee Black Thought . The same year, he released
2233-573: The People We Love . In the autumn of 2006, Sparklehorse released his fourth album, Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain , a collaboration with Danger Mouse and Steven Drozd of The Flaming Lips. In August and September 2006, Danger Mouse collaborated with British graffiti artist Banksy to replace 500 copies of Paris Hilton 's album Paris in British music stores with altered album artwork and
2310-604: The Soul , and songs like "Mongrel Heart" off of the self-titled Broken Bells album. The album was titled Rome and was released on May 16, 2011. On February 13, 2011, Danger Mouse won a Grammy for Best Producer for his work on the Black Keys ' Brothers , Broken Bells' self-titled album, and the Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse album Dark Night of the Soul . On November 1, 2011, Los Angeles-based indie band Electric Guest released their first single, "Troubleman/American Daydream", produced by Danger Mouse. Danger Mouse produced
2387-467: The UK showed a marked decrease in new symptoms just a few days after the start of confinement on the countries ( Italy and France) with the strongest lockdowns. Modelling on the United States pandemic suggested "the pandemic would have been almost completely suppressed from significantly taking off if the lockdown measures were implemented two weeks earlier" and that the second wave would have been less severe had
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2464-409: The album for AllMusic , Mark Deming compared it favourably to the band's previous releases; "musically, technically, and philosophically Cave World is a world away from the band that recorded "Research Chemicals" or "Sports," and they've added some brain power without losing their strength." Alan Ashton-Smith of musicOMH awarded Cave World four-and-a-half stars out of five, summarizing the album as
2541-510: The authenticity of its signatures. The lockdowns had multiple effects on people's everyday lives. Some of these were direct effects, such as cancelling or postponing a social event, and others had indirect effects, such as losing a sense of identity . For example, teachers often derive meaning and a sense of life purpose from teaching, but the schools were closed, which caused many of them to feel disconnected from their identity as teachers. Many people also felt that they could not trust that
2618-717: The award in 2011. Brian Joseph Burton was born on July 29, 1977 in White Plains, New York . He grew up in Spring Valley , New York. Burton moved to Stone Mountain, Georgia , a suburb of Atlanta , where he attended and graduated from Redan High School. He lived in Athens, Georgia , where he pursued a degree in telecommunications at the University of Georgia on scholarship, and where his trip hop works ( The Chilling Effect (1999), Rhode Island (2000), and Pelican City / Scanner – Pelican City vs. Scanner (2002)) were released while he
2695-454: The band "have built their acclaim on the prefix that they're doing things differently, having built an army of fans from their projects, Viagra Boys weave in hints of electronica, intense bursts of sax, and angsty spoken-word vocals across this soaring new album". P.J. McCormick, writing for Pitchfork offered a more mixed review of the album, giving it a 6.2 out of 10. Comparing their work to fellow Swedish band, The Hives , McCormick praised
2772-557: The band's bassist Flea suffered during a skiing trip. It resumed in August 2015 and continued into early 2016. The Getaway was released in June 2016 with Danger Mouse performing on and having co-writing credits on many of the songs. In March 2017, Red Hot Chili Peppers singer Anthony Kiedis indicated that the band would likely want to work again with Danger Mouse on the follow-up to The Getaway . Kiedis stated "I think it's good to work with
2849-431: The band's whole debut album Mondo which was released on April 24, 2012. On May 1, 2012, Norah Jones released her Danger Mouse-produced fifth studio album Little Broken Hearts (Blue Note/EMI). Danger Mouse co-wrote the song "Keep It for Your Own" by POP ETC . Danger Mouse produced Portugal. The Man 's seventh studio album, Evil Friends , released in June 2013. Danger Mouse produced At.Long.Last.ASAP ,
2926-408: The best album of their career. Ashton-Smith described Cave World as "clever but debauched, silly but serious, this is the best album of their career thus far". Ross Horton, writing for The Line of Best Fit gave Cave World a 9 out of 10. Horton compared the album to the works of Iggy Pop and said that the album "is by some measure their most adventurous. Where the first (2018's Street Worms )
3003-450: The code was "a buggy mess". Retrospective evaluation of lockdowns and computer modeling has verified that they have significantly contributed to reducing mortality and morbidity from COVID-19. A notable opponent of lockdowns has included Sweden's state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell , who has frequently criticised the strategy. The Swedish government's approach has included minimal restrictions and has been controversial in part due to
3080-411: The early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic , a number of non-pharmaceutical interventions , particularly lockdowns (encompassing stay-at-home orders , curfews , quarantines , cordons sanitaires and similar societal restrictions), were implemented in numerous countries and territories around the world. These restrictions were established with the intention to reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2 ,
3157-505: The early stages of the pandemic in Europe and the United States , statistical modeling which advised that restrictions were helpful to prevent a large number of deaths were used as the basis for lockdowns. This includes an Imperial College projection , led by epidemiologist Neil Ferguson . Despite some criticisms, academics defended the Imperial projection as fundamentally sound, while admitting
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3234-616: The economic costs. A number of medical experts signed the Great Barrington Declaration in October 2020 which called for "Focused Protection" on high risk groups and minimal restrictions on the general population to achieve herd immunity through COVID-19 infection. However, the majority of medical experts and the WHO have strongly criticised this proposed strategy for its lack of scientific basis and for being unethical. The declaration has also attracted controversy over its funding and
3311-486: The eleventh studio album by the Red Hot Chili Peppers titled The Getaway . He has produced and co-written albums by Norah Jones ( Little Broken Hearts ), Electric Guest ( Mondo ), Portugal. The Man ( Evil Friends ), Adele ( 25 ), and ASAP Rocky ( At.Long.Last.ASAP ). He has been nominated for 22 Grammy Awards and has won six. He has been nominated in the Producer of the Year category five times, and won
3388-475: The fall in consumer traffic as people feared the virus itself. Similarly, a National Bureau of Economic Research study found stay-at-home orders increased staying at home by just 5–10%. Another study from Yale University found that most social distancing was voluntary, driven primarily by "media coverage of morbidity and mortality". On the other hand, some studies have argued that coercive measures probably decreased interactions, while accepting that most of
3465-466: The findings of the study have been questioned due to its numerous limitations, including the small sample size of countries. Some research has also found that an "advisory" approach is not adequate to control COVID-19 outbreaks. An analysis of an outbreak in northern Italy found that an effective reduction in community transmission occurred during a strict national lockdown, and that earlier less stringent measures were ineffective at reducing mobility to
3542-770: The first week of April – more than half of the world's population . Lockdowns affected 93% of workers worldwide. 30% lived in nations with complete workplace closures, save for critical businesses, and 42% in countries with partial closures. Nearly 20% lived in nations with recommended but not compulsory workplace shutdown. Major restrictions first began in China, with other countries in East Asia like Vietnam soon implementing widespread containment measures. Much of Europe , North America and Africa took much longer to bring in tough measures. Restrictions on travel between and activity within nations were of varying stringency. By mid April, nearly 300 million people, or about 90% of
3619-501: The health effects of lockdown restrictions, researchers have found the lockdowns have reduced crime and violence by armed non-state actors, such as the Islamic State, and other terrorist groups. They have also had profound negative economic impacts , and have been met with protests in some territories. Several researchers, from modeling and demonstrated examples, have concluded that lockdowns were somewhat effective at reducing
3696-640: The indie rock band The Shins to form the band Broken Bells ; the band released three albums since then, with Into the Blue (2022) being the most recent one. Burton collaborated with rapper MF Doom as Danger Doom on The Mouse and the Mask and with emcee Black Thought on Cheat Codes . Danger Mouse produced the second Gorillaz album (2005's Demon Days ), Beck 's 2008 record Modern Guilt , and four albums with The Black Keys ( Attack & Release , Brothers , El Camino , and Turn Blue ). In 2016, he produced, performed on, and co-wrote songs for
3773-411: The international hit single " Crazy ". "Crazy" became the first UK number-one single based solely on downloads . Gnarls Barkley set out on tour and was one of the main opening acts on the Red Hot Chili Peppers ' Stadium Arcadium World Tour . The Gnarls Barkley touring lineup featured future Chili Peppers guitarist, Josh Klinghoffer . He produced two tracks on The Rapture 's 2006 album Pieces of
3850-574: The largest of the pandemic. The world's longest continuous lockdown lasting 234 days took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina , in 2020. As of October 2021, the city of Melbourne, Australia , and certain cities in Peru and Chile spent the most cumulative days in lockdown over separate periods, although measures varied between these countries. Danger Mouse (musician) Brian Joseph Burton (born July 29, 1977), known professionally as Danger Mouse ,
3927-451: The lockdown lasted another two weeks. The stringent lockdown in Hubei in early 2020 proved effective at controlling the COVID-19 outbreak in China . The relatively high number of cases and deaths in Sweden , which has kept much of its society open during the pandemic, when compared to its neighbours with comparable demographics Norway , Denmark and Finland that did enforce lockdowns,
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#17328837063454004-411: The lockdown response when he discussed the lack of weight that public health authorities had given to the potential downsides of the lockdown measures when they were formulating the official response to COVID-19. Some economists supported increased government funding for mitigation efforts, even at the cost of tolerating a very large economic contraction. They agreed that lockdowns should continue until
4081-461: The moment that looks like the album we will put out next because it's just happening so easily." Ultimately, Danger Mouse was credited as co-producer on 7 of the album's 11 tracks, and sole producer on "Sleep Like a Baby Tonight" and "This Is Where You Can Reach Me Now". During this period, he produced the band's single " Ordinary Love ", released in 2013 as part of the soundtrack to Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom , and their single " Invisible ", which
4158-495: The name Danger Mouse were his collaborations with rapper Jemini , including the album Ghetto Pop Life , released in 2003 on Lex Records. The Danger Mouse debut was well received by critics, but he did not rise to fame until he created The Grey Album , mixing a cappella versions of Jay-Z 's The Black Album over beats crafted from samples of the Beatles ' eponymous album , also known as The White Album . The remix album, originally created just for his friends, spread over
4235-595: The population, were under some form of lockdown in the United States , with around 100 million in the Philippines and about 59 million in South Africa , while around 1.3 billion were under lockdown in India , which was the largest of all lockdowns. By the end of April, around 300 million people were under lockdown in various countries of Europe, including but not limited to Italy , Spain , France , and
4312-501: The production of the album saying that the album "production is cleaner than Viagra Boys' first two albums, bringing their ever-present drive to the fore. The interplay of the rhythm section, vocal layering, and the occasional sax tear elides some of the weaker lyrics, and the album's bass-forward gloss recalls Danger Mouse 's back catalog of rock-oriented production work ( Parquet Courts ' Wide Awake , The Black Keys ' El Camino , Portugal. The Man 's Woodstock ) . However, McCormick
4389-424: The reduction may have been voluntary. One of those two studies, by Flaxman et al., has been criticized, among other things for having a country-specific adjustment factor, without which the model would predict a massive number of deaths for Sweden. One widely cited economic simulation asserting that shelter-in-place orders reduced total cases three-fold, however, held voluntary distancing constant. Another study found
4466-568: The relatively high death toll due to widespread transmission. However, the Swedish government began considering enacting a lockdown in early 2021. While arguing in August 2020 for the need for further lockdowns in the United States, physicians Ranu Dhillon and Abraar Karan argued for "smarter lockdowns" that impose restrictions on areas with high levels of transmission, and to increase support to vulnerable populations in these locations to offset
4543-517: The same guy again to um, you know you had your freshman experience. I think we owe it to ourselves to start from the beginning with this guy and see what we can accomplish." However, their follow-up albums, 2022's Unlimited Love and Return of the Dream Canteen , featured the return of longtime producer Rick Rubin . In April 2017, he released Resistance Radio: The Man in The High Castle ,
4620-553: The same time that services to support survivors are being disrupted or made inaccessible. For instance, in France there was around a 30% spike in cases of violence against women since the lockdown in March 2020. Telehealth had an important role to allow physicians not to miss the follow-up of patients with different chronic diseases and potentially helped to contain SARS-CoV-2 spreading among both patients and healthcare providers During
4697-432: The shutdown of parts of the economy, due to non-pharmaceutical anti-pandemic measures and enforceable by law like: These measures caused the COVID-19 recession in 2020. The table does not contain: The pandemic resulted in the largest number of shutdowns worldwide at the same time in history. By 26 March, 1.7 billion people worldwide were under some form of lockdown, which increased to 3.9 billion people by
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#17328837063454774-723: The social changes to anomie , an absence of social norms that was first described at the end of the Industrial Revolution , as the prior, socially agreed-upon system of interpersonal connections, values, interdependence, and ideas about normal behavior was set aside, and a new system had not yet emerged. Some commentators have suggested that states' use of emergency powers to curb freedom of assembly and movement are authoritarian and may result in long-term democratic backsliding . Centralization of power by political leadership in Hungary , Poland , China and Cambodia in response to
4851-538: The spread of COVID-19, therefore flattening the curve . The World Health Organization 's recommendation on lockdowns is that they should be very brief, short-term measures to reorganize, regroup, rebalance resources, and protect health workers who are exhausted. To achieve a balance between restrictions and normal life, the WHO recommends a response to the pandemic that consists of strict personal hygiene, effective contact tracing , and isolating when ill. In addition to
4928-468: The spread of COVID-19, they have become less effective at containing it. Lockdowns in Australia and Vietnam in response to Delta outbreaks proved less effective at containment than previous lockdowns were against the spread of other variants . One study led by an economist at the University of Chicago found that involuntary lockdowns had little impact, with voluntary distancing making up nearly 90% of
5005-407: The spread of, and deaths caused by, COVID-19. Lockdowns are thought to be most effective at containing or preventing COVID-19 community transmission, healthcare costs and deaths when implemented earlier, with greater stringency, and when not lifted too early. A study investigating the spread based on studies of the most common symptoms such as loss of taste and smell in France, Italy and
5082-490: The things (e.g., doorknobs) and people around them were safe. People also lost a sense of time, with the feelings of unpredictability developing into the opposite of the normal human ontological security . Instead of knowing what to do, what to trust, and what to expect in the future, people felt disconnected and at a loss. It also made people more aware of the pre-existing problems they were facing, such as abuse, addiction, and racism. The sociologist Ann Swidler compared
5159-465: The threat of resurgence has declined, even when considering only the economic impact. There was a general agreement, at least in some economic circles, that "severe lockdowns — including closing non-essential businesses and strict limitations on people's movement — are likely to be better for the economy in the medium term than less aggressive measures". Both the World Food Programme (WFP) and
5236-572: The tracks as venturing into electronica . The album features three short techno interludes: "Cave Hole", "Globe Earth" and "Human Error", courtesy of producer DJ Haydn. "Big Boy" includes a guest appearance from Jason Williamson, vocalist of English band Sleaford Mods . On review aggregator website, Metacritic , Cave World has an average critic score of 82 out of 100, indicating "universal acclaim" based on thirteen critics. On AnyDecentMusic? , Cave World has an average score of 8.1 out of 10 based on ten contemporary music critic scores. Reviewing
5313-518: The virus that causes COVID-19 . By April 2020, about half of the world's population was under some form of lockdown, with more than 3.9 billion people in more than 90 countries or territories having been asked or ordered to stay at home by their governments. Although similar disease control measures have been used for hundreds of years, the scale of those implemented in the 2020s is thought to be unprecedented. Research and case studies have shown that lockdowns were generally effective at reducing
5390-405: Was a note-perfect, hermetically-sealed recreation of old thrills, and the second (2021's Welfare Jazz ) was an expansive and expanded take on the same source material, this one draws from a new well". Ian Winwood, writing for Kerrang! gave Cave World four out of five stars, saying " Cave World is an album brimming not just with colour and life, but also with a sense of striking unease that
5467-510: Was a student. While at the University of Georgia he was introduced to Nirvana , Pink Floyd , and Portishead , and came to know the indie rock scene in Athens, remixed work by several local artists, including Neutral Milk Hotel , and DJ'd for University of Georgia radio station WUOG-FM . While in Athens, Burton took second place in a 1998 talent contest and was asked to open for a concert at
5544-409: Was acknowledgement of the importance of non-pharmaceutical interventions in controlling the spread of COVID-19. However, later research also acknowledges high societal costs, though in some circumstances less than the costs of allowing the pandemic to spread without mitigation. Epidemiological evidence supports generalized non-pharmaceutical interventions to curb the spread of COVID-19. During
5621-578: Was adopted in Australia, and a strict four month lockdown in the state of Victoria during an outbreak in Melbourne, combined with other measures, averted a wider outbreak in the country in 2020. New Zealand and Vietnam also adopted a "Zero-COVID" strategy throughout 2020 that included targeted lockdowns. The emergence of the highly transmissible SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant in 2021 has led some commentators to suggest that although lockdowns continue to reduce
5698-701: Was critical of the album's critique of the alt-right , particularly saying "try as they might to curry offense by embodying the mindset of the alt-right internet troll, Cave World's weaker moments recall a late-night television monologue: toothless, expendable, and not particularly interested in convincing the uninitiated." The album was mentioned in 'End of Year' lists for several publications, including Dazed and Glide . All tracks are written by Oscar Carls, Pelle Gunnerfeldt, Linus Hillborg, Henrik Höckert, Elias Jungqvist, Sebastian Murphy and Tor Sjöden, except where noted. Viagra Boys Additional musicians Production COVID-19 lockdowns During
5775-492: Was first announced on September 29, 2009. On December 21, 2009, the band informed fans in an e-mail message of the release of their debut single "The High Road", which was made available as a free download on their official site. The self-titled debut album was released in the U.S. on March 9, 2010. In 2010, Danger Mouse began producing U2 's thirteenth studio album Songs of Innocence , released in 2014. U2's frontman, Bono , said in 2010, "We have about 12 songs with him. At
5852-500: Was released on Super Bowl Sunday, February 2, 2014. In 2005, Danger Mouse began composing a " Spaghetti Western " album with composer Daniele Luppi and main vocalists Jack White and Norah Jones . Instrumentation was done mainly by musicians who played on the original Ennio Morricone scores. Danger Mouse does not play any instruments on the album. The style of the album reflects much of Danger Mouse's work since 2005, such as segments of Beck's Modern Guilt , aspects of Dark Night of
5929-604: Was released. In May 2008, an album with Martina Topley-Bird , titled The Blue God , was released. Topley-Bird collaborated on "All Alone", one song on the Danger Mouse produced Gorillaz second LP, Demon Days . Also released in May 2008 was Replica Sun Machine , an album with the band The Shortwave Set , including a collaboration with Van Dyke Parks and the Velvet Underground 's John Cale , according to British music magazine New Musical Express . Upcoming releases include
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