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Album reviews: Blur majors on the melody and melancholy with robust new album
Thirty years on, the British band are still producing great pop tunes at the same time as more considered numbers
Blur, The Ballad of Darren (Parlophone)
You might presume that Blur, the UK band with probably the most significant and credible back catalogue of any music act that came to prominence in the 1990s, would by this point (they are all in their mid-late 50s) have phoned in their new songs, sat back and waited for the praise to roll in. Not so.
Instead, on their first album since 2015’s The Magic Whip, they have ...
