If you've seen the pop opera (best thing ever) buy this, especially to jog your memory.
If you think it's another gorillaz album, it's not! It's a soundtrack to a chinese legend opera. All singing is in mandarin.
Of course if you speak mandarin that's fine. ;-)
The album is fantastic, but it really helps if you know the show and get where it's coming from.

Lol at some of the comments.
Go to any opera and i defy anyone to come out singing the music to it.
Its what it says it is, its effectively a soundtrack for an opera!!
After going to the show at the royal opera house and being able to place the music with what was going on stage helps.
It all fits in brilliantly and despite what one guy said "im a fan of david (?) albarn".
Another masterpiece by the ex-blur and gorillaz genius damon!!!
The show is at the o2 arena in nov/dec go and see it people!!!

I went to see the opera at the Royal Opera House in London while it was touring the UK earlier this summer, this is the soundtrack to this opera and has nothing to do with the gorrilaz, or the olympic theme tune on the BBC which is a totally different matter. People that have bought the CD and didn't know what they're buying that's there responsibility and it does not discredit the value of the music. One person so naive as to say it sounds like it belongs to a musical but there isn't one... I have to say that play did not correctly publicize it by putting "Gorillaz" in the object title giving people the wrong idea. The moral to this is know what you're buying before you buy. If you're expecting something that it isn't you're going to be dissapointed.