Mayonnaise: self-titled  [6 December 2004]  By Tim O'Neil  On
the face of it, it would be easy to dismiss Mayonnaise as a low-
rent Gorillaz. Crispin Hunt is the voice here, instead of Blur’s
Damon Albarn—Hunt used to be the frontman for the Longpigs, a
mostly overlooked British group who arrived too late to the
Britpop party before imploding in 2000. They never did
accomplish anything in the United States. In place of Dan the
Automator we have Howie B, the renowned Scottish producer whose
career has managed to stay unerringly below the radar.  But
despite the critic’s natural tendency to dismiss everything new
based on passing resemblances to past acquaintances, I will
refrain from making the obvious comparison. The Gorillaz were
hardly the first act to make a go of the pop / electronic hybrid
crossover supergroup action—they were just the first to make a
massive international success of it. People have been making
albums like this at least as far back as Public Image Ltd.—which
is not to say that this sounds