Blur
Blur were formed in 1989 by Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree and signed with Food/EMI the same year. Announcing their arrival with debut album Leisure in 1991, Blur continued to revolutionise the sound of English popular music with second release Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993). Five successive UK #1 albums followed - with Parklife (1994) and The Great Escape (1995) helping to propel the band to mass popularity in the UK and beyond. The eponymous Blur was released in 1997 and seventh album Think Tank (2003) was Blur’s first as a three-piece after the temporary departure of founding guitarist Graham Coxon. Twenty one years after the release of their debut album, 2012 saw Blur 21: The Box, the band's body of work compiled and gathered together into one box. Their most recent release as a four-piece, the critically acclaimed chart-topping album The Magic Whip (2015), started life in Hong Kong when the band had an unexpected break in touring in May 2013.
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@RecordStoreDayUK - The Magic Whip 10th Anniversary Edition.
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The Magic Whip Tour Poster
June 2015
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blur photographed by Midori Tsukagoshi, 1997
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Lonesome Street
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Lonesome Street was released on this day in 2015.
The music video was directed by Ben Reed. It showcases the dance moves of the Phoenix Fly Line Dancing Group Of San Francisco.
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The Magic Whip 10th Anniversary
Visual artist Tony Hung has reimagined the album’s original artwork to create a special new red and gold album cover. With added foil embossed details, the new artwork edition vinyl is available as a half-speed mastered, single gold disc for the first time.
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Happy Birthday @damonalbarnmusic!
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Stephen Street and Stephen Sedgwick, the producer and sound engineer for The Magic Whip discuss the making of ‘There Are Too Many Of Us’, as featured on The Magic Whip. Audio Technology, 2015.
Street: “The lead vocals in the song There Are Too Many Of Us, has distortion and reverb inspired by Damon's iPad demo. He’d demoed that song in Garageband, singing straight into the iPad mic and added tons of distortion, which made his voice sound very otherworldly. I was keen for his final vocal to sound similar. Damon has a wonderful voice which sounds great when it's recorded straight, but on this album we really wanted to put his voice in certain spaces, to make sure it carried the atmosphere of travelling and feeling disconnected. I'm really pleased with the changes in vocal tone throughout the record."
Sedgwick: "Some of the effects were achieved using plug-ins, and some in the outboard I had on the stereo groups. Our general outboard mix setup did not change much from song to song. Studio 13's EMT 240 plate supplied most of the reverb you can hear on the vocals. I used the Distressor again on the vocals during the final mix. During recording I have it on the opto setting, doing very little, and during mixing I have it on a 3:1 or 4:1 setting to hold the vocal in place. On the guitar bus I had two Chandler Germanium compressors, and I also had a spring reverb called the Welter Rev 5 on some of the guitars, as well as on some of the synths. I had the Retro Instruments 2A3 on the drums, which is a Pultec-style EQ, and also the API 2500 and on some songs the Chandler Zener limiter. I had the Urei Blackface 1176 on the bass and on some songs the Tube Tech EQ for some added weight."
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