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Review: Blur – Modern Life is Rubbish (Special Edition)
Rocksucker Following on from our review of the 21st anniversary Special Edition version of Blur’s debut album Leisure, Rocksucker shall move swiftly on to one of our very favourite LPs, not to mention...
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Review: Blur – Parklife (Special Edition)
Rocksucker Whereas 1993′s Modern Life is Rubbish was rather more of an artistic triumph than a commercial success, the following year’s Parklife not only hit each of those bull’s eyes but split the...
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Review: Blur – The Great Escape (Special Edition)
Rocksucker Blur’s fourth album, 1995′s The Great Escape, has been contextualised to death, even dismissed as a “bad album” by Damon Albarn himself, so let’s just quickly mention the rivalry with Oasis...
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Review: Blur – Blur (Special Edition)
Rocksucker …on which Blur well and truly hit the ejector seat button of the exploding clown car that Britpop had become. In a year – 1997 to be precise – that saw Radiohead, Super Furry Animals and...
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Review: Blur – 13 (Special Edition)
Rocksucker Blur’s sudden about-turn into noisy psych-pop on Blur yielded spectacular results but it did not sit well with everyone. 1999′s William Orbit-produced 13 would confuse and alienate even...
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Review: Blur – Think Tank (Special Edition)
Rocksucker Blur’s most recent album is now almost ten years old. Damn. Coxonless for all but one track, Think Tank arrived when Damon Albarn was already well into beat territory having dropped the...
View ArticleMagical Mystery Tour: A playlist of influence…
Rocksucker The recent re-release of The Beatles’ Magical Mystery Tour film had Rocksucker going back to the album for a thousandth listen or so, and our desire to write about this glorious work without...
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News Roundup: Boards of Canada, Neutral Milk Hotel, Sigur Rós, Blur and more!
Rocksucker It’s news…it’s a roundup…welcome to Rocksucker’s perfunctorily titled News Roundup! Blur to make new album (still) Are you ready for your weekly “Blur to record new album” fix? Well then,...
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Round-Up: Primavera Sound 2013, Friday
Rocksucker Mulatu Astatke, Guardian Alien, Kurt Vile & The Violators, Django Django, Matthew E. White, Local Natives, Swans: as far as Rocksucker is concerned, that lot would make for a pretty darn...
View ArticleReview: Damon Albarn – Everyday Robots
RocksuckerHe may rub some up the wrong way, but musically the Blur front man is an enduring class act. Review: Damon Albarn – Everyday Robots appeared first on Rocksucker. Visit Rocksucker for more...
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