When a big-name pop band gets back collectively after an extended gap it typically counts as greater than a music business event or a information headline. For those people who fell in love with a gaggle during their youth, the reunion can really feel like meeting up with their younger selves again. Vocals and sounds that when defined a mood are abruptly again in foreign money.
So the members of Blur – singer Damon Albarn, guitarist Graham Coxon, bass player Alex James and drummer Dave Rowntree – trod very rigorously and quietly as they put all the pieces in place before going public with news of their album The Magic Whip, the first they have made as a four-piece for 16 years. In the 1990s their band stood for a cocky, clever type of dissent and, as Coxon informed the Observer, they didn't need to say they have been back until they knew what that they had.
Continue reading...
Comments