Blur - The Magic Whip

[Stock]

THEY'RE BACK (with Graham Coxon !!!) I'm pretty fucking excited

 

 

01. Lonesome Street

02. New World Towers
03. Go Out
04. Ice Cream Man
05. Thought I Was A Spaceman
06. I Broadcast
07. My Terracotta Heart
08. There Are Too Many Of Us
09. Ghost Ship
10. Pyongyang
11. Ong Ong
12. Mirrorball

 

And the track Go Out is available :

 

[Guest bitroast]

OMG. can't listen to track yet but i am fucking stoked. any word on who's producing ?? when's release date? ??? ahhhh! my first favourite band ever have a new album :) happy to hear this!!! : )

[Guest bitroast]

April 27 release

Fans of Britpop pioneers Blur had reason to celebrate on 19 February, as the group announced details of their first album in 12 years, entitled The Magic Whip.

Describing the follow-up to 2003’s Think Tank as a return to “the way we recorded when we started,” Damon Albarn said that the album was similar in style to the music David Bowie made during his mid 70’s Berlin period.

Initially conceived in Hong Kong, during downtime following a cancelled show in Japan, the band spent five days laying down ideas. It wasn’t until Graham Coxon reprised these sessions and presented them to long-time producer Stephen Street, who went on to develop them with the guitarist, that they realised they might have material worthy of a new album.

“They did some editing and some production work and sent around the initial tracks and we all realised we’d done something quite special there,” said drummer Dave Rowntree. “There was 18 months [in-between recording the songs] which allowed us to have a bit of perspective on it. When they played it back, that was the time everyone got very excited.”

[Soloman Tump]

This is good news.

[Stock]

They already worked with Stephen Street on Modern Life Is Rubbish and Parklife. I'm really, really excited.

Plus the new song is great, even tho the video is pretty weird actually !

[Guest bitroast]

They already worked with Stephen Street on Modern Life Is Rubbish and Parklife. I'm really, really excited.

Plus the new song is great, even tho the video is pretty weird actually !

 

street for MLIR > parklife > the great escape > blur.

he was their go to producer up until they decided to mix things up a bit with 13.

[nature]

This makes my day.

[Guest bitroast]

o shit. it sounds like blur.

 

:) v excellent :) !!!

[eh Speedy]

Always love for these guys.

[o00o]

Awesome

[Guest MyogenicMax]

This is good news.

Very good news

[Stock]

o shit. it sounds like blur.

 

My thoughts exactly. It won't be one of those shitty rock-band-comebacks.

Plus it doens't sound exactly like something they could have done before and I'm really happy with that as well !

[Stock]

New track (and video) posted yesterday !!!

 

 

really interesting track imo, even tho it sounds like a new Gorillaz track being played by a rock band

[o00o]

It's getting better and better with every track

 

!hyped!

[Guest Papillon]

It's getting better and better with every track

 

!hyped!

Yeah these first two are really good, I'm glad they decided to release this. The world is a better place with new Blur tracks in it.

[Verdant Hickies]

**wonders why nobody is making a magic whip joke**

[Guest bitroast]

what magic whip joke ???

 

[Stock]

Great track, I'm sure it'll work perfectly as the album opener They're still writing cute/catchy tunes and that's awesome imho !

Is this Graham Coxon singing around the 2:30 mark by the way ?

[beerwolf]

Always really loved their cover artwork. This one is no different.

[o00o]

There are 3 tracks on spotify already

[Soloman Tump]

Go Out is cool, getting plenty of radio airplay.

Excited for this. 2015 is shaping up great so far (apart from Prodigy)

[o00o]

Track by track review: http://www.nme.com/features/new-blur-album-the-magic-whip-graham-coxons-track-by-track-guide

[Stock]

Nice read!

 

Some news on the Blur front : in France, the chainstore "FNAC" offers you an early access to buy tickets to Blur's Paris show in june if you pre order the album...
So I guess a tour is on the way ???

[o00o]

would be awesome

[Franciscus]

who's going to one of the shows?

 

http://vblurpage.com/news/tourdates.htm