I feel when Damon put his vocals on, and I put my backing vocals on – that’s what makes Blur Blur. Out of the blue, it’s like, ‘Woah, it feels like Blur’. However type of extra like males. (…) I feel the voices are deeper, perhaps richer. There’s a wierd vulnerability, but there’s type of a power. It’s an fascinating factor to be part of. However extraordinarily constructive. I assumed we have been getting on nice – there was plenty of laughing in the studio, plenty of fooling around. We had to snort and be silly because it was intense. You’ve obtained to have occasions if you’re simply being an fool.
Graham Coxon on working on The Ballad of Darren, MOJO 9/2023