“We’ll Make Music Again Together”

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“We’ll Make Music Again Together”

Damon Albarn talks exclusively to Xfm about the frustrations of working without Graham Coxon, dismissing the myth of the guitarist as the sole voice of anger on the band, yet how he’s sure they’ll be reunited one day.


Speaking to John Kennedy on the X-posure show, Albarn gave a track-by-track run through of Blur’s new album ‘Think Tank’. The singer explained that the album’s most garage punk song, ‘We’ve Got A File On You’ was borne out of a fear that the album was missing something without Coxon’s presence.


“It’s about paranoia.” Albarn said, “Your average kind of paranoia. In the absence of Graham it was getting very frustrating, not having any of that sort of madness on the guitar and I think we just said let’s do it, turn the amps up and just scream for a minute.”


Though Albarn was also very insistent that Blur’s trademark guitar aspect was never solely down to Coxon’s influence.


“It wasn’t ever exclusively Graham’s heritage. It was all of ours and that’s how we formed a band, and when we were Seymour that’s what we were all into totally. But in a way we’ve had quite a public existence and shared how we as band feel quite openly over the years, and so it’s become the received wisdom that Graham’s the one who likes angry music and the rest of us just ‘Well, whatever’”.


However the album’s final track, ‘Battery In Your Leg’ does feature Coxon and, Albarn seems sure that Blur will one day be reunited with their guitarist,


“It’s the only thing that when Graham did come back to the studio briefly worked.” He explained, “It was just really quick. I remember I’d been waiting around for everyone to turn up and when I sat on the piano it came out very quickly. The idea of singing a song about us and we all came in and just did it really quickly. Everyone’s parts wrote themselves.


“It was really nice, but that was kind of the sole moment that it made sense of being a four-piece still. But y’know? That’s evidence that it still works, as we’ve said, I’m sure there’ll come a time when we’ll make music again together.”

[Maryse]

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