If I had a nickel for every time a pop-rock duo released their fourth album, which is a concept about getting out of your head produced by Paul Meany, while it simultaneously is their best album, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but weird that it happened twice
A funeral for who you once were, except it's less of a funeral and more of a celebration of life
I'm hoping that this is the final album from Blur, not because I think this is bad or that I want them to stop, but I feel that this is just a great final chapter to a great band. It's a melancholic breezy album, and a fitting close.
It's not a traditional "blur" album in a sense, there's almost no rock here, and there's essentially no "experimentation" here. Not that that was needed, but it became a sort of tradition for Blur. Leading up to the release I was worried it ... read more