No masterpiece like PARKLIFE, but ...

The drive there was already heard in their entirety in the stream. My favorite tracks are on "Ong Ong", the "Ghost Ship" and "Thought I was a Spaceman" and the pre-heard "Lonesome Street." "Ice Cream Man" is not bad, but probably will be too monotonous in the long run, yet, even though I do not mind spending the plate four star, I get the feeling that I will not hear very often. For that I am too much a fan of bands like the Strokes or Oasis (Oasis!) And Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - which is and has always been the Britpop god par for me and his band for me so much better than blur. That's just like that. In addition to Kurt Cobain Mr. Noel Gallagher was the songwriter number 1 of all the decade of 1990 and the first two Oasis-plates dive into the history of pop and in surveys to magazines and polls of mirrors to Rolling Stone or NME in which Best-lists , The song "Live Forever" or "Wonderwall" also - in the best-song lists. Tori Amos, Paul Weller, Ryan Adams and Rod Stewart have already been covered Oasis - a testament to its class. Blur had a lot of attention enjoyed by the "Song 2" - ". Trouble in the Message Center", there are at least 20 better Blur songs like the classic "For Tomorrow" or A new Park Life, which was their classic, has not arisen here. But - and that's good - no more boring work like that, but ... when the mirror or Stern writes, the best band or important British-1990 or even important Britpop band its decade is back, then the journalists have "3!" just not done their homework - was Oasis - that can not review it, the more successful. And although I like to listen to both bands, but not both in the same league. Or Did Oasis back then? - "We are the Beatles and the Rolling Stones - blur, these are the Monkees." In this sense: Good plate, four stars, but not outstanding - so not to call the previous best record of the recent year. That's CHASING Yesterday by Noel Gallagher's HFB.

To plate itself is to say - the content of these songs on "The Magic Whip": "Lonesome Street" is refreshing, very reminiscent of their best songs in the Nineties, "Ghost Ship" could be found on the next "Cafe del Mare", a chilled soundtrack series appear good, the sounds are great, "Thought I was a spaceman" slowly builds up and is an overachiever Album, "Pyongyang" and "Mirror Ball" on the other hand rather bored. "Go Out" is not bad, but nothing special. "I Broadcast" is more American breathed, as the same Blur album, what was the first ever, which could no longer be described correctly as Britpop - could well also be fitted. "My Terracotta Heart" is too bland. Since I prefer to listen "Everyday Robots" - which is slow but exciting - and this record I have and I like. But I'll say it again at this point ... To discover blur and does not yet know, prefer the Best Of buy with the real classics: "For Tomorrow", "Girls and Boys" or "The Universal" - the work Here is an album of its own - no entry, it should be for someone, at most a "Continue listening."