As they return with their first new music since 2015, we price the most effective of a band who ponder heartache, London, fame and extra – and used Britpop to ponder Britishness
The issue with Blur’s fourth album The Nice Escape may be that it captured the coke-y environment of mid-90s London slightly too nicely: its songs typically sounded as horrible because the characters they satirised. However sometimes a unique album peeks out: darker, sadder – epitomised by Greatest Days’ careworn magnificence.
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