Released: 2007 Label: Parlophone, Honest Jon's When I bought: 2007 Damon Albarn plus Paul Simonon from The Clash plus Simon Tonge from The Verve plus Tony Allen who helped create the Afrobeat genre. A pretty strong 'supergroup'. I listened to this album perhaps twice when I bought it in 2007 and remember being really bored by it. Now I'm older, greyer and generally less angry at the world, would a re-listen spark joy? No. Urgh. This album is just so dull. First of all, the mix is terrible. I get that when you have the bass player from The Clash you want to hear him, but the bass just dominates the sound. As a result, Albarn's vocals are buried for much of the album, and the melodies aren't strong enough to hold the attention. The album is primarily led by piano and acoustic guitar, and Albarn is trying his full 'I'm an authentic geezer' act, but it feels likes no one is really pushing themselves. This album was adored by critics at the time. I d...
Pretty much every day I listen to a record from my collection randomly picked by my daughter before she goes to school. This is to justify still having hundreds of CDs (and a few cassettes and vinyl)