From Loudersound.
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.
Each member of the band has made his own individual statement about the forthcoming record, Blur’s ninth album, which was produced by James Ford and recorded at Damon Albarn’s Studio 13 in London, and in Devon.
“This is an aftershock record,” says vocalist Albarn, “reflection and comment on where we find ourselves now.”
“The older and madder we get, it becomes more essential that what we play is loaded with the right emotion and intention,” adds guitarist Graham Coxon. “Sometimes just a riff doesn’t do the job.”
Dave Rowntree chips in with, “It always feels very natural to make music together. With every record we do, the process reveals something new and we develop as a band. We don’t take that for granted.”
The bass player said something too, but nothing important.
The tracklist for The Ballad Of Darren is:
1. The Ballad
2. St Charles Square
3. Barbaric
4. Russian Strings
5. The Everglades (For Leonard)
6. The Narcissist
7. Goodbye Albert
8. Far Away Island
9. Avalon
10. The Heights
Blur play an intimate show at Colchester Arts Centre tonight (May 19) and have underplay shows in Eastbourne, Wolverhampton and Newcastle next week ahead of a string of festival appearances in Europe, and two nights at London’s Wembley Stadium in July, at which snooker legend Steve Davis will support.
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- Blur - She's So High - Sample Stickered - UK - 12" vinyl - Promo - £50.00, $62.50, €58.50 (New Item) (arrived 01-May-2024 10:34)on May 7, 2024 at 3:07 am
BLUR She's So High (Rare 1990 UK 3-track 12" vinyl single, including Sing & I Know Extended Mix, housed in a glossy picture sleeve with 'Manufactures Property Not For Sale' sticker attached to the reverse. The sleeve and vinyl shows minimal signs of wear and play 12FOOD26)
- Blur - The Magic Whip - Sealed - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £46.99, $58.74, €54.98 (New Item) (arrived 22-Nov-2023 13:58)on May 7, 2024 at 3:07 am
BLUR The Magic Whip (2023 UK/EU limited edition 12-track black vinyl double album 2-LP, originally released in 2015. The Magic Whip thrums with ideas and possibilities. Isolation and the de-peronalising qualities of modern living weavethrough the album's 12 songs. Gatefold picture sleeve with Chinese cover artwork by Tony Hung, spine-wrap obi & factory sealed. Recommended)
- Blur - One Born Every Minute - Flexi & Magazine - US - 7" vinyl - Promo - £6.99, $8.74, €8.18 (Back In Stock) (arrived 27-Jul-2023 09:22)on May 7, 2024 at 3:07 am
BLUR One Born Every Minute (1996 US promotional only one-sided 7" Flexi Disc sold with Issue 52 of The BOB magazine / newspaper, including a feature article on the band and cover picture. This flexi was exclusive to this magazine only and was not issued commercially released as a single anywhere else. This is both the flexi AND a copy of the newspaper [folded] with the flexi comes stapled to the mag [as it did at the time]!)
- Blur - On Your Own - White Vinyl - UK - 7" vinyl - £15.00, $18.75, €17.55 (New Item) (arrived 07-Sep-2023 10:26)on May 7, 2024 at 3:07 am
BLUR On Your Own (1997 UK limited edition 3-track 7" single pressed on Pearlescent WHITE Vinyl, also including live versions of Pop Scene & Song 2 recorded for their 'Peel Acres' session, textured hype stickered picture sleeve FOOD98)
- Blur - Beetlebum - CD1 - UK - CD single - £6.99, $8.74, €8.18 (New Item) (arrived 07-Sep-2023 11:01)on May 7, 2024 at 3:07 am
BLUR Beetlebum (1997 UK 3-track silk screened CD single, also including A Spell [For Money] and All Your Life, card wallet picture sleeve CDFOOD89)
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