The Magic Whip Blur
Album info
Album-Release:
2015
HRA-Release:
29.04.2015
Album including Album cover
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- 1 Lonesome Street 04:23
- 2 New World Towers 04:04
- 3 Go Out 04:40
- 4 Ice Cream Man 03:25
- 5 Thought I Was A Spaceman 06:16
- 6 I Broadcast 02:52
- 7 My Terracotta Heart 04:05
- 8 There Are Too Many Of Us 04:25
- 9 Ghost Ship 04:59
- 10 Pyongyang 05:47
- 11 Ong Ong 03:09
- 12 Mirrorball 03:38
Info for The Magic Whip
6 years after their last record as a four-piece, 27th April 2015 sees the release of the band’s eighth studio album, titled The Magic Whip. The recordings, which began during a five-day break in touring in Spring 2013 - at Avon Studios in Kowloon, Hong Kong - were put aside when the group finished touring and returned to their respective lives. Last November Graham revisited the tracks and, drafting in the band’s old friend and early producer Stephen Street, he worked with the band on the material. Damon then added lyrics and the 12 tracks of The Magic Whip are the result.
Damon Albarn, vocals, keyboards, synthesizers, acoustic guitar, drum machine
Graham Coxon, guitar, keyboards, vocals, backing vocals
Alex James, bass
Dave Rowntree, drums
Additional musicians:
James Dring, programming
Demon Strings, orchestration
Mike Smith, Horns
Stephen Street, programming, additional percussion
Recorded in May 2013, November 2014 and January 2015
Blur
as we know it was born in 1989 when the band signed to Food/EMI. Debut album Leisure (1991) announced the arrival of a band with pop suss warped by an art-punk eccentricity. Yet Blur had more in them: namely, a revolution in the sound of English popular music. Second album Modern Life Is Rubbish reintroduced the idea that English rock music could be cool, and by the time their third album Parklife emerged in 1994, the rest of the UK had caught up.
The Great Escape (1995) refined the sound palette of Britpop, but Blur were already moving on. 1997's Blur was an about-face - scuffed and noisy and un-English. Follow-up 13 was an even a more radical adventure in sound as William Orbit refereed a truce between organic punkpop and new-fangled technology.
Seventh album Think Tank (2003) was Blur’s first as a three piece after the temporary departure of founding guitarist Graham Coxon, featuring an eclectic variety of rhythms and textures and glorious melodies.
In 2009 Blur reconvened as a four-piece to play a series of UK shows including two sold out dates at Hyde Park and a historic Sunday night appearance at Glastonbury. A film about Blur, No Distance Left To Run, was released in 2010.
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