Ep. 53 Matt Wilkinson Sound Playlist

Before the storm strikes, there is silence. Before thunder roars, there is a whisper. WHISPER THE THUNDER is Fleshbeat Factory's most atmospheric Viking Metal journey - where quiet tension explodes into brutal chaos. Industrial riffs meet Norse mysticism in an album that balances crushing aggression with haunting beauty. This is the calm before Ragnarök. This is the moment before gods fall and warriors rise. ⚔️🔥

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05 Beneath the Iron Sky

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Hey Heartbreaker

I Should Coco

Caught By the Fuzz

Under the Westway

The Great Escape

The Universal (2012 Remaster)

Guilty

Diseasey

Lost Friends

Edge Of Town

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.

Under the Westway

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