Blur had made on their first four albums "Leisure", "Modern Life Is Rubbish", "Parklife" and "The Great Escape" was developed by the typical Britpop band towards a serious musical force. This development was indeed interrupted briefly for "Parklife", but caused by the fact that at the same time the quality of each song steadily increased that the music Blurs always evolved and from the world of pop music English is no longer indispensable. After the fourth album "The Great Escape" was a masterpiece, Blur were actually forced a lot to do with the next album even conceptually different, because otherwise would have no more than a poor imitation of its predecessor can come of it.
And this they also have quite succeeded with flying colors, because even if their fifth album "Blur" not quite "The Great Escape" and "Parklife" can keep up, but you can see that Blur are still able to make excellent music , In "Blur" give yourself quite experimental, mixing Beatles-like Britpopsongs as beetlebum with short songs like Song 2 or CHINESE BOMBS and melancholy ballads like DEATH OF A PARTY and electronic sounds like ESSEX DOGS
With all the feeling for the quality of the songs on the one hand and the atmosphere of the album is on the other hand get so "Blur" is again very successful. The absolute out tip is ON YOUR OWN.
