Music For Maternity

The reason The Magic Whip has been hailed as a rousing return for British music legends Blur is apparent within the first minute of the album’s opener, Lonesome Street. It’s a foot-stompingly assured slice of Park Life-esque familiarity, tempered and made new – the swagger of Albarn’s early musings, remoulded with a signature Coxon riff egging on prose about provincial English living and pride in suburban mundanity. Classic Blur then. Read more here…