Blur (Blur album)
Occupation
- Guitar: Graham Coxon
- Bass: Alex James
- Drums: Dave Downtree
Blur is the fifth studio album by British rock band Blur. It was released on 10 February 1997 and to date their best selling album.
Description
The self-titled album represents a bold step, since it is relatively radical turn away from the previous sound of the band, who had become in the years of the Britpop boom from 1993 to 1996 their trademark. Until then dominated mainly classical elements of British pop history and its most important protagonists, like the Beatles, the Clash, the Kinks and XTC, the music of Blur, now were heard rock and lo-fi influences significantly stronger American indie as about the bands Pavement and Guided By Voices. Clearly than before, Punk preference of the band appeared, on Essex Dogs even the first time Albarn interested in dub music. Blur thus distanced themselves from Britpop contemporaries ( especially Oasis ), which remained largely true to their previous sound and started to include less experimentation in their music. Only the first single Beetlebum and Look Inside America are arrested still in Britpop and the pop of the late 1960s, of the remaining album tracks was especially the punk Evergreen Song 2 to a wider audience and is now probably the most popular song of the band.
Singles
- Beetlebum - 13 January 1997
- Song 2 - April 7, 1997
- On Your Own - June 16, 1997
- M.O.R. - September 15, 1997