Blur + Graham Coxon = BLUR!!!
This might not be super duper exciting to all of you, but I am busting my buttons with excitement over the news that Graham Coxon is very likely going to record once again with Blur. Though mainly known in America as the band that did the “woo-HOO!” song that’s still used on every commercial and at every sporting event or possibly as the band that had a feud with that other mid-’90s britpop band, Oasis, Blur was one of the most interesting, exciting, and consistently all-over-the-place rock groups of the last decade of the rock’n'roll era. Though singer/guitarist Damon Albarn (now of Gorillaz and The Good, The Bad, & The Queen) got most of the attention, Coxon was the band’s true wizard, sonic architect, secret weapon, and X-factor, the biggest influence on the way their albums sounded (just check out their two masterpieces, Modern Life is Rubbish and Blur—and ok, Parklife, too—if you wanna see how expansive and supercharged guitar-driven pop rock can be). His solo albums are pretty good, but they ain’t Blur, and I, for one, and delighted that the long-rumored/oft-pooh-poohed reunion seems like it might actually happen.
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