NME NEWS
ROCKET MEN!
It's "playtime" for BLUR - as the group enter their last week working on their
new album, an LP which is the "record of our lives" according to ALEX JAMES.
Blur are currently in Devon, putting the final touches to their seventh
studio album, due early in 2003.
Since heading to the south west, the band have been joined by producer William
Orbit. Stephen Street, who produced their classic 'Parklife' album, as well as
a host of others, has also been in the studio with the group.
Alex James has said that work in the studio has pretty much come to an end,
with those still in Devon enjoying a "Christmassy ambience".
"Mince Pies. People are setting fire to 1/2 inch mastering tape and making
loops of the damage," he wrote on www.blur.co.uk. It旧 playtime. Also there
are rockets, Dave got them from Hamley旧. They go really high and come down
on a parachute. It旧 tempting to stay here forever trying to make a rocket
that can achieve escape velocity, or inventing stuff in the barn."
James also said that because this album has been in the works for over a year,
it has given the tracks a chance to "grow naturally".
He said: "It旧 a year since we started recording, there have been gaps, so it
hasn急 taken a whole year in the studio, but the passage of time has allowed
everything to grow naturally. We挙e recorded so many tracks we haven急 had to
be precious about any of them. Sonically, musically, rhythmically, lyrically
and in terms of hip shakin?grooves and hot licks, we have a made a record of
our lives.
"We歓l be delivering a truckload of tracks to the record company; it旧
annoying that a recording contract only recognises the concept of "album"
when you挙e made a body of work like this. They should be able to cope,
En garde."
A hint of the band's new direction was revealed earlier this month, with the
track 'Don't Bomb When You Are The Bomb' hitting the airwaves to a largely
shocked reaction from fans.
As far back as March, frontman Damon Albarn had pin-pointed the song as a
potential single, and he had stated the band's intention to release something
as a white label: "We'll put a white label out in the next couple of months
and it won't have our name on it, but it'll take a lot of people by surprise.
We're hoping people play it not knowing who it is."
Published: 28-11-2002-14-47
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