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New World Towers

There Are Too Many Of Us

There Are Too Many of Us

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An alternative-rock piece blending lo-fi edges with a soft haze of feedback-kissed melancholy and that subtle shuffle-drive you only get from bands who mastered noisy sweetness. Mid-tempo drums and a warm, steady bassline keep everything grounded, while clean delay-guitars drift in and out like distant streetlights in fog. The vocals vary between calmly detached and energetic, letting the poetic and cryptic lyrics carry their own weight.



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Halcyon Hours

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Blur as we know it was born in 1989 when the band signed to Food/EMI. Debut album Leisure (1991) announced the arrival of a band with pop suss warped by an art-punk eccentricity. Yet Blur had more in them: namely, a revolution in the sound of English popular music. Second album Modern Life Is Rubbish reintroduced the idea that English rock music could be cool, and by the time their third album Parklife emerged in 1994, the rest of the UK had caught up. 

The Great Escape (1995) refined the sound palette of Britpop, but Blur were already moving on. 1997's Blur was an about-face - scuffed and noisy and un-English. Follow-up 13 was an even a more radical adventure in sound as William Orbit refereed a truce between organic punkpop and new-fangled technology.

Seventh album Think Tank (2003) was Blur’s first as a three piece after the temporary departure of founding guitarist Graham Coxon, featuring an eclectic variety of rhythms and textures and glorious melodies. 

In 2009 Blur reconvened as a four-piece to play a series of UK shows including two sold out dates at Hyde Park and a historic Sunday night appearance at Glastonbury. A film about Blur, No Distance Left To Run, was released in 2010.

There Are Too Many of Us

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