Word: albarn
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...mellow, midtempo rocker. Blur can be a painfully smart band, and in these few songs, we come into palpable contact with its restless intelligence. However, much of the rest of the album is unfocused and fuzzy. Reportedly, some of this album was inspired by lead singer Damon Albarn's breakup with his longtime girlfriend, Justine Frischmann of the group Elastica. "It's over--I knew it would end this way," go the lyrics of one song, the bruised ballad No Distance Left to Run. This album's vision is clouded by pain. The future usually looks bleak after a breakup...
Such was the scenario last Friday at Paradise Rock Club, where the Franco-Anglo melodymakers Stereolab graced the karmic stage playing to a capacity crowd. Whereas Damon Albarn and company may get jeers from Gallagher acolytes between sets, and Jarvis Cocker has lingerie (new and apparently used) thrown at him mid-verse, only the progenitors of what has been called "silver-suited amorphous future-pop" would receive such a foolhardy request to enter their privileged world of audio experimentation...