Blur's new album, The Ballad of Darren, is their first since 2015, and the band's ninth overall. The band speaks to Sky News about their comeback.
It sounds like somebody looking back - and distinctly like a Blur record.Blur were formed in 1988 - but it wasn't until a few years later that they reached international fame with breakthrough albums such Modern Life Is Rubbish in 1993 and then Parklife.
In their youth, their battle with Oasis for No1 was marketing and tabloid heaven - their music the soundtrack of a generation. Since then whole formats have come and gone - and three decades have gone by since their breakthrough album."Thirty years ago we didn't have the internet," Albarn notes. "Thirty years ago people hadn't even imagined social media…Thirty years ago it was very different politically... Thirty years ago people weren't bothered about climate change…"
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