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title: "Blur Release First New Single In Twelve Years"
url: https://altwire.net/blur-release-first-new-single-in-twelve-years/
author: "Altwire Staff"
published: 2015-02-20T06:02:35+00:00
updated: 2023-12-06T11:36:50+00:00
categories: ["News"]
tags: ["Alternative", "Blur", "Indie"]
source: "AltWire (altwire.net)"
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# Blur Release First New Single In Twelve Years

*By Altwire Staff · February 20, 2015*

The recently reunited members of Blur announced their first album in twelve years this morning in an interview on BBC Radio, then promptly premiered their first single *"Go Up"* off of *The Magic Whip* due out April 28th this year.

The original four members of the 90's Brit-pop band last created an album together in 1999 for *13*, two years after their highly popular hit *"Song 2"* and their 2003 *Think Tank* largely without their guitarist. Dormant for the last decade in the studio, Blur reunited for festivals, while front-man Damon Albarn remained occupied with Gorillaz and his first solo album *Everyday Robots.*

The sessions for *The Magic Whip* started in a studio in Hong Kong some years back during a tour break with producer Stephen Street. Albarn was quoted as saying *"it felt like the way we recorded when we first started doing stuff,"* adding lyrics and vocals to the tracks guitarist Graham Coxon constructed with Street.

*"There's things that are obviously Blur,"* Coxon added, "*but [also] things that might not sound classically what people think."* Fans weren't alone in their shock this morning, with Albarn explaining that he thought Blur had run its course.

*The Magic Whip* can be pre-ordered on iTunes and Amazon, the single available as an instant download upon purchase.

http://youtu.be/Sp1ks7PTzng

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From AltWire: https://altwire.net/blur-release-first-new-single-in-twelve-years/