Blur

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Artist's albums

13

13

1999 · album

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Biography

Abundant with chart-topping albums, number one singles, Brit and Ivor Novello Awards, blur’s canon continues to resonate. When blur announced their biggest ever show after eight years away, the Wembley Stadium concert sold out immediately, hastening the announcement of a second date alongside a string of headlining festival appearances. This summer, to mark their return, the group will release a brand new album. The Ballad of Darren is blur’s ninth album and their most arrestingly intimate work to date. Working with producer James Ford, the group convened at Albarn’s Studio 13 in the spring of this year to prep for the upcoming shows. During the sessions, they workshopped songs in the live room, drawing on the muscle memory of shared history until they had the songs which form the album. What, to outside observers, might have seemed like a chaotic process took shape at speed as the songs alchemised into a sound that couldn’t have been mistaken for anything other than blur.