Word: blur
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British popular music at large has been moving towards more dance-oriented styles for years. Yet Blur have always been on top of change, thus solidifying their superiority over Oasis as Britpop’s flagship...
...Britpop” was coined in the mid-Nineties, with the boom of guitar rock bands who saw themselves as following in the proud tradition of the Beatles, Who, Kinks and Smiths. In further popularizing the sound, bands like the Stone Roses and Suede paved the way for both Blur and Oasis. Both bands made massive contributions to the- genre—Blur with their third album Parklife and Oasis with their auspicious debut Definitely Maybe. But only the former band continued to evolve, while their Manchester rivals would tread the same waters of their debut for the rest...
Moving away from their early baggy-beat and shoegazer styles, Blur have more recently taken on electronic traces in their music that parallel the advent of trip-hop acts such as Massive Attack and Portishead...
...emphasis here is clearly on sound and atmospherics rather than songwriting, and catchy guitar hooks are all but completely absent. Instead, they are replaced by winding synths that are every bit as infectious, yet sound unmistakably modern. Fatboy Slim’s production exposes new sides of Blur that were probably kept in check by Coxon’s conservative presence in the band...
With Think Tank, Blur manage to summarize their entire career on a single genre-bending album. While they are still far from masters of electronica, they succeed with flying colors on most counts...