Blur are have just released a new album:The Ballad of Darren which is the ninth studio project from the long-running Britpop group.
The Ballad of Darren is produced by James Ford (co-producer of The Now Now by Gorillaz, Albarn’s animated pop group, as well as projects by Arctic Monkeys, Depeche Mode, and many more). Its first single,
Blur‘s reunion activity is not going to be confined to live shows, as the group have announced the forthcoming release of their first album in eight years, The Ballad Of Darren.
The follow-up to 2015’s The Magic Whip is being teased by the release of a new Blur single, The Narcissist.
On their eponymous debut, The WAEVE—aka Blur guitarist Graham Coxon and former Pipettes member Rose Elinor Dougall—become the latest act to dip into this disenchanted stream. Far from the urbane chatter of Blur’s greatest hits, The WAEVE reflects the turbulence beneath the soil of Great Britain: an album of pastoral disquiet and itchy post-punk edge.
Fresh off of the release of their self-titled debut album, The WAEVE are sharing the video for LP cut and latest single ‘Sleepwalking’.
Fresh off of the release of his latest album ‘Full Time Lover’, Eyedress has shared a cover of Blur’s ‘Song 2’. The song was included in Deezer’s InVersions 90’s compilation, which also includes covers by Soccer Mommy, Priya Ragu, Lauv and more. Have a listen below.
In 2000 when 2-D, Noodle, Murdoc Niccals and Russel Hobbs poked their (virtual) snout into the first Gorillaz EP, Tomorrow Comes Today. We discovered fascinating biographies behind each character, a new mythology for worshipers of electronic music, classy phrasing and weird R&B and later in 2005 we found out that Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett were the almighty creators behind it all. Now, in 2022, after some albums they have shared their new track, ‘Cracker Island’.
More than twenty years ago Damon Albarn taught the world that all you really needed to create a social spectrum-spanning anthem of the people was “girls”, “boys,” and “love.”
Blur is the product of the hedonist scene where young people would get together in warehouses and factories to consume MDMA and dance all night. That influence is very obvious in “Girls and Boys”, which talks about intense nights at a bar in Mallorca, a sister island to Ibiza. There are rumors that Damon Albarn wrote it when he travelled there and experienced some nonstop partying. “Girls & Boys”—released March 7, 1994—was the lead single from Blur’s third album Parklife.
The supergroup – who include Jet’s Nic Cester, Miles Kane, Blur’s Graham Coxon, Matt Bellamy, Jamie Davis and The Zutons’ Sean Payne – have released their take on the Motown classic by The Four Tops.
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