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Damon Albarn (born March 23rd 1968) is an English musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and record producer from Whitechapel, London. He made a name for himself as the front man of Britpop pioneers, Blur, as well as virtual band, Gorillaz.

It is apparent from Damon Albarn’s CV, that multiple successful projects are better than one successful project – his first project being Blur, a band that formed in 1988 that have managed five consecutive UK number one albums and the Gorillaz who earned an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records as the Most Successful Virtual Band. It was nominated for the Mercury Prize in 2001. They went five times platinum in the UK, double platinum in the United States, winning themselves a Grammy award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals. By 2007, the combined sales of their albums “Gorillaz” and “Demon Days" had exceeded 15 million units.

Both projects were indeed a success, but in 2014, he decided to embark on a solo project. The album “Everyday Robots” was described by Albarn as his “most personal record” and was released on April 25th 2014. It features guest contributions from musician and producer Brian Eno, singer Natasha Khan from Bat for Lashes, and the Leytonstone City Mission Choir. It was nominated for the 2014 Mercury Prize for best album. The album was made available for free streaming on iTunes on April 22nd 2014, whereby people could listen to the standard edition of the album in its entirety. It is a similar strategy endorsed by Justin Timberlake for his albums, “The 20/20 Experience” and Daft Punk for “Random Access Memories”. According to Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to review from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 76. The album charted in 20 different countries, with its highest position being in the UK at No. 2.

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For my money I do not know if it gets better than when the amazing and infinitely talented artist Damon Albarn performs "Lonely Press Play" live. It's like listening to the music of otherworldly creatures. It makes my ears scream in ecstasy and pure joy for love of music. It's a slow melodic fun jazzy tune about important issues. The folk stylings of the singer come through in his simple but perfect for the song vocals. I love listening to his music and his great lyrical poetry as he sings about emotionally powerful and important issues that every one deals with on a daily basis.The crowd at the last show I attended was enchanted. They started, mouth agape, as soon as Damon Albarn began singing his song. They were taken aback at his amazing vocals and how they could sound like that. I myself was just as shocked at this man's voice. It only keeps getting better and better through the years. Everything about his voice, as well as his song writing, is just the perfect blend of folk and funky jazz fun. I would highly recommend everyone see a Damon Albarn show live at least once in their lives.

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You would think Damon Albarn would be contented in being the lead singer of one of the world's most successful Brit-pop outfits Blur as well as a band member of the visually innovative Gorillaz. However neither project seemed to truly content the great musician so he took to creating solo albums in the little free time he has between commitments. Of course the outcome is equally brilliant as you would imagine and he has a similarly endearing tour.

Blur are known for their angst and energy whilst Gorillaz are recognised for the animated counterparts so it is great to see all this stripped back when Albarn takes to the stage solo. It really gives you opportunity to hear Damon's great, characterful vocal and abilities with the guitar. Of course he reaches upon his past discographies tonight including covers of 'Tender' and 'All Your Life' by Blur and 'Kids With Guns' and 'Tomorrow Comes Today' by Gorillaz featuring amongst others. This is all fine with fans who realise that Damon Albarn will be a musician revered in history, they are glad they have the opportunity to see him now.

Watching Damon Albarn at Royal Albert Hall was the most exciting musical experience in the last decade. Damon Albarn is one of the most unique, talented and passionate musicians around. He took us to the pub and back, engaged with the crowd, shook hands and gave hugs to his fans while singing. He took us on a musical journey from his latest album and then back to the 90's and Blur days joined by Graham Coxon and then some classic hits from the Gorillaz with De La Soul. Damon captured the essence of music that I grew up on, music that I love, music that makes me happy, music I want to sing along and dance to. The atmosphere was electric and this was a party to remember!!

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Slip away at the Walt Disney Concert Hall for the only U.S. date announced for Damon Albarn’s solo tour. The Blur and Gorillaz frontman will take to the stage on piano, backed by a string section, to tackle songs from his latest solo effort,  The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows . Oh, and don’t worry: The show promises some Gorillaz and Blur songs, too. Woo-hoo!

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Blur frontman Damon Albarn kicks off at lacklustre Coachella crowd: ‘You’re never seeing us again’

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Damon Albarn was not impressed by the Coachella crowd during the first weekend of the festival.

Albarn’s Blur played a 13-song set, including Nineties classics like “Girls & Boys”, “Popscene” and “Song 2”, on the festival’s main stage on Saturday (13 April).

The frontman tried to lead a singalong during the bridge of “Girls & Boys” but was met with silence on multiple attempts.

Eventually, he told the audience plainly: “You’re never seeing us again so you might as well f***ing sing it. Know what I’m saying?”

“Song 2”, at least, was met with a huge reaction from the crowd, Albarn said: “This song has been so good to us. But I did get shown a TikTok of it being kind of performed by a vacuum cleaner which is you know…. It is humbling and inspiring at the same time.”

The viral video Albarn was referring to has been reshared in response to his callout.

Blur fans watching from home expressed their outrage on social media and defended Albarn after seeing the muted response from the live audience.

“The crowd for Blur at Coachella was so embarrassing Damon I’m so sorry I wasn’t there,” one fan tweeted.

“You know who we should book for the 7:30 Saturday slot here at Coachella?” one critic wrote sarcastically on X/Twitter. “Blur. Whose entire discography combined has sold slightly less in the United States than Limp Bizkit’s Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water did in its first 7 days on sale.”

However, others questioned whether booking Blur made sense given Coachella’s demographic.

“Blur ‘bombing’ at Coachella is so funny,” another wrote. “Sorry their target audience – 48+ media workers who lost their jobs and have two kids and also a dozen eggs is $9 – didn’t roll out for the $7,200/ticket concert. Does the band still get paid?”

Two people who were unlikely to be singing along to Blur’s refrains were Taylor Swift and her boyfriend Travis Kelce. The couple were seen watching Jack Antonoff’s band , Bleachers, perform at the festival.

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Back in January 2022, Albarn was the subject of controversy after he suggested in an interview that Grammy-winner Swift does not write her own songs.

Swift responded to Albarn’s comments about her saying she was “such a big fan” of the Britpop star until she saw his comments.

“I write ALL of my own songs. Your hot take is completely false and SO damaging. You don’t have to like my songs but it’s really f***ed up to try and discredit my writing. Wow.”

“PS I wrote this tweet all by myself in case you were wondering,” she mockingly added.

Albarn responded to Swift apologising “unreservedly and unconditionally”.

“I totally agree with you,” wrote Albarn on Twitter. “I had a conversation about songwriting and sadly it was reduced to clickbait. I apologise unreservedly and unconditionally. The last thing I would want to do is discredit your songwriting. I hope you understand. – Damon.”

The Gorillaz star’s response was widely criticised by fans who accused him of attempting to pass the buck.

Blur recently released their first album in eight years, The Ballad of Darren. In a five-star review for The Independent , Helen Brown called it “the band’s best record since 1999”.

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Damon Albarn Explains Waiting 25 Years to Go Solo

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Damon Albarn was so busy recording and touring with his bands Blur , Gorillaz and The Good, the Bad and the Queen over the past two decades that the thought of releasing a solo album barely crossed his mind. “I just never imagined it was something I’d do,” he tells Rolling Stone on the phone from England. “Who doesn’t love playing in a band? It’s fucking brilliant. The best. Maybe I was just subconsciously avoiding a solo album.”

Damon Albarn Gets Digitized in ‘Everyday Robots’

That changed two years ago as he was winding down work on The Bravest Man in the Universe , a comeback album for soul legend Bobby Womack that Albarn produced along with XL Recordings owner Richard Russell. “We wanted to keep exploring what we were doing,” says Albarn. “We had the inevitable conversation about starting a band. It was fun to come up with concepts and names, but one day he came in and said, ‘Look, if you ask me what I want to do, I want to produce you.’ And I went, ‘Alright, I suppose that means I’ve got to put it out under my own name.'”

Albarn gave Russell a cache of 60-plus songs and let him choose. Some were digital files, some were on cassettes, some on scraps of paper. Others were recorded on cell phones, including “Mr. Tembo,” which Albarn wrote to sing to a baby elephant adopted by friends in Tanzania. “In an ironic way, it’s sort of the most collaborative record I’ve ever done when it comes to songwriting,” he says.  “Some of the songs just came from the two of us experimenting in the studio.”

The result was Everyday Robots , a mournful, reflective record set for release on April 28th. Many of the songs trace Albarn’s life back to his childhood in East London. “I started at the beginning by going back to the neighborhood where I grew up and walking around and filming stuff with my iPad,” he says. “It was like my own archaeological dig, cordoning off areas that I wanted to concentrate on.”

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The nostalgic journey also forced Albarn to contemplate how technology has changed interpersonal relationships, another theme he explores on Everyday Robots . “By going to where I came from, I got a good perspective on a time where there were no telephones apart from the one in your house,” he says. “There were no computers. If you watched a TV show, you had to watch it during the particular moment that it aired. I wanted to ask, ‘Are we further from ourselves or closer to ourselves because of technology?'”

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Brian Eno contributed guest vocals to “Heavy Seas of Love,” the final track on the album. “He’s actually a neighbor of mine,” says Albarn. “I’ve gotten to know him since we belong to the same health club, though we engage in very different activities. Mine are mind-numbing, machine-based running things. He was doing something much more interesting: unisex water aerobics. Even in the health club, he’s being Brian Eno . I just figured you don’t hear his voice very often, so I thought it would be a great idea to get him to sing.”

Natasha Khan (Bat for Lashes) sings on “The Selfish Giant” and The Leytonstone City Mission Choir guests on “Mr. Tembo,” but the rest of the album was created by Albarn and Russell alone. Russell handled the drum programming while Albarn took on the singing, piano and guitar parts. “We did it in just three months at my studio,” he says. “We’d work five days a week, 10:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m.”

Albarn is extremely proud of Everyday Robots , but he has no idea whether it will lead to any more solo albums.”I’ve always made music,” he says. “This one just has my name on it. You could say that I’m embarking on a new stage in my life, but really I could turn around next time and do something else. So it’s not a given that I’ve become a solo artist.”

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Doja Cat, Blur, Sabrina Carpenter among Coachella 2024 highs and lows

Coachella , one of America's biggest msuic festivals, and arguably the most internet-famous, has wrapped up for another year.

ICYMI, the first weekend had its share of surprises (and flops) and although the event always repeats the line-up for a second weekend, that doesn't always mean the same big moments.

This year's headliners Lana Del Rey , Tyler, the Creator and Doja Cat all found ways to mix up their performances, while Blur and Grimes addressed talking points around their sets.

Here's all the highs and lows, hits and misses from the second weekend. Consider it the next best thing to baking under the Indio, California sun with a bunch of influencers and Zoomers.

Grimes' redemptive DJ set

Grimes had something to prove after a disastrous first weekend that saw the Canadian electronic artist formally apologising for technical issues plaguing her set at the outdoor Sahara stage.

"I HAVE FIGURED OUT WHAT HAPPENED AND IT WONT HAPPEN AGAIN," she promised her more than 2.5 million Instagram followers . She also vowed to "cap the disarray" and wondered "if there's ever been a more rehearsed or fine tuned Grimes set" in a post on X (the platform run by the father of her three children, Elon Musk).

Grimes also made fun of her first weekend troubles with a self-deprecating 'breaking news' style video that opened her Saturday evening show.

Reworking the majority of her set, Grimes remixed her own music as well as splicing together BLACKPINK song Whistle with Solo by BLACKPINK member Jennie and Rihanna.

Judging by the court of public opinion (i.e. social media), Grimes won back a lot of good will but it wasn't entirely flawless — she still managed to fudge a few playbacks.

Doja Cat makes Coachella history

"Dojchella" began trending on X shortly after the 28-year-old's closing Sunday night performance – a blockbuster spectacle with stunning costumes, sharp choreography and even a raunchy mud pit sequence.

The first female rapper to headline Coachella, and second Black woman after Beyoncé's 2018 performance , Doja Cat took cues from Beychella, crafting visuals for those watching the online stream as much as those standing in the field.

The Hottest 100 topping artist also triumphed through technical difficulties, professionally moving through some microphone mishaps without letting it fluster her during FTG (F*** The Girls).

The set drew heavily from Doja Cat's 2023 album Scarlet, a departure from her earlier pop and R&B stylings towards rap. Admirably, she eschewed her most familiar songs – such as Say So, Kiss Me More, or even viral hit Moo – in favour of flexing tough bars and her commanding presence.

Lana Del Rey brings out Camila Cabello

Bringing out a special guest (or several) to spice up a set has become Coachella tradition, and after roping in Billie Eilish last week , Lana Del Rey welcomed Camila Cabello to the stage for Friday's headlining set to perform her new single I Luv it.

A pivot into hyperpop featuring a guest verse from Playboi Carti , I Luv It is already one of 2024's most divisive hits but Del Rey is evidently a fan.

"This is my girl. I have so much fun with her. I love this song to death," Del Rey told the audience. "Thank you so much, angel."

The feeling was more than mutual, with Cabello taking to X post-performance for a series of posts heaping praise on Lana.

"I don't really know who I would be without female artists like her who show me what's possible," she wrote .

"How to be free. How to be hard and soft at the same time. How to make your life a work of art. Thank you for including us in your moment last night. I am at your service forever my girl."

Kid Cudi breaks foot after jumping off stage

Whoopsie! A late addition to the second weekend (replacing Vampire Weekend), the singer-rapper had to cut his set short after he excitedly leaped from the stage and injured himself.

"Hey guys, so I broke my foot today at the show," Cudi confirmed wrote on X post-show.

"Never broken a bone before so this is all a bit crazy. I wanna thank u all for ur concerns and well wishes!! I love y'all man. I heard y'all still ragin' when I was offstage. Made me smile big."

Kid Cudi aired two new songs – Moon Man Shit and Blue Sky – before taking his fall during a performance of his 2009 David Guetta collaboration Memories. 

Tyler, the Creator reunites with Earl Sweatshirt

Last weekend, Tyler brought out Childish Gamibno, A$AP Rocky, Charlie Wilson, and Kali Uchis during his headlining set. On Saturday, he satisfied long-term fans with an appearance from his childhood friend and fellow rapper, Earl Sweatshirt.

Getting their big break coming up together as key members of controversial hip hop collective Odd Future, the two artists joined forces on the main stage for a rare showing of a couple of fan favourites.

Sweatshirt joined for the first performance in a decade of AssMilk – a collaboration from Tyler's 2009 mixtape Bastard – and Rusty, from Tyler's 2013 album Wolf.

Aussies Rüfüs Du Sol tease new music

ARIA and Grammy award winning electronic trio Rüfüs Du Sol are no strangers to the Californian desert, it's where they created parts of their third album Surrender .

On Friday, the Sydney-bred trio returned to Coachella to play the Quasar stage – a new stage dedicated to house and techno music – and previewed new material from an upcoming full-length studio project.

The group are taking cues from the dance music of their youth – Moby, Daft Punk and Justice — and told Rolling Stone : "We're exploring more ideas, drawing influence from more genres without being too over-analytical…"

Damon Albarn says Blur at Coachella was "probably our last gig"

Last weekend was Blur's first big American show in nearly a decade but unfortunately, the crowd's response to the Britpop legends wasn't great . It was bad enough that a visibly frustrated Damon Albarn lambasted the audience during Girls & Boys: "You're never seeing us again so you might as well f***ing sing this."

For the second weekend, Albarn addressed the elephant in the room. "This is the truth of Coachella isn't it? The second week is music fans, people who appreciate music."

Before closing number Tender, Albarn said: "In the spirit of clarity and truth, this is probably our last gig." He added the decision was "no reflection on Coachella – I love Coachalla, it's beautiful."

Last year, Blur released The Ballad of Darren , their second reunion album after surprise 2015 comeback The Magic Whip . But, by December, and a run of festival shows, Albarn said he was already prepared to "wrap up this campaign."

"It's too much for me" he told French publication Les Inrockuptibles . "It was the right thing to do and an immense honor to play these songs again, spend time with these guys, make an album, blah blah blah… I'm not saying I won't do it again. It was a beautiful success, but I'm not dwelling on the past."

Sabrina Carpenter flirts with Barry Keoghan, brings out Norah Jones

Irish actor Barry Keoghan and American pop singer Sabrina Carpenter are currently dating, which might've been obvious to anyone who caught footage of the Saltburn star filming the latter in action at Coachella last weekend.

Well, Carpenter made things a little more explicit for weekend two.

The 23-year-old has made a viral trend out of inserting new lyrics to the outro of her 2022 single Nonsense during her concerts. Playing on the main stage on Friday evening, she nodded to Barry's very NSFW scene from Saltburn while also staking a claim for a future line-up bump at the festival.

Earlier in the set, Carpenter invited out Norah Jones for a duet of the latter's triple Grammy winning song Don't Know Why, which Sabrina explained she fell in love with at age seven.

Lil Nas X joins Kevin Abstract to debut new collaboration

Kevin Abstract, solo artist and former ringleader of hip hop collective Brockhampton , surprised fans during his set by bringing out Lil Nas X.

"He means a lot to me and he means a lot to the culture and I'm very lucky to know him," Abstract said of the Old Town Road and Montero hit-maker. Together, they premiered a new song titled 'Tennessee'.

"This like the gay Watch the Throne, you feel me?" Abstract said onstage, jokingly referring to Kanye West and Jay-Z's 2011 collaborative album. He later tweeted a snippet of the studio version with the same caption.

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Damon Albarn says Blur’s Coachella weekend two show is “probably our last gig”

The frontman recently suggested that the band would be going on hiatus until further notice

Damon Albarn said “this is probably our last gig” during Blur ’s set at weekend two of Coachella 2024 last night (April 20).

• READ MORE: Coachella 2024: surprises, technical difficulties and a distinct lack of vibes

The legendary Britpop band – comprised of Albarn, guitarist Graham Coxon , bassist Alex James and drummer Dave Rowntree – took to the annual music and arts festival’s main stage for the second consecutive Saturday night (April 20).

And as they prepared to launch into ‘Tender’, the last song of the night, Albarn confided to the crowd: “In the spirit of clarity and truth, this is probably our last gig”.

“In the spirit of clarity, and truth, this is probably our last gig” – Damon Albarn introducing the last song of the Blur set at Coachella, Weekend 2 pic.twitter.com/52Fy56y702 — Damon Albarn Unofficial (@DamonUnofficial) April 21, 2024

It comes after Albarn stated in December that the band would be going on a hiatus until further notice , saying “it’s too much for me”.

“It is time to wrap up this campaign,” he said. “It’s too much for me. It was the right thing to do and an immense honour to play these songs again, spend time with these guys, make an album, blah-blah-blah.”

He continued: “I’m not saying I won’t do it again, it was a beautiful success, but I’m not dwelling on the past.”

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You can find Blur’s set at Coachella Weekend 2 in the official livestream video below:

Blur played at Coachella Weekend 2:

‘St. Charles Square’ ‘Popscene’ ‘Trouble in the Message Centre’ ‘Beetlebum’ ‘Goodbye Albert’ ‘Trimm Trabb’ ‘Out of Time’ ‘Bird Song’ ‘Death of a Party’ ‘Girls & Boys’ ‘Song 2’ ‘The Narcissist’ ‘Tender’

Blur’s set at the first weekend saw Albarn airing his frustration with the unenthusiastic crowd during a rendition of ‘Girls & Boys’ .

• READ MORE: Coachella 2024 weekend two: line-up, stage times and how to stream online

“You can do it better than that,” he told attendees at one point, which was met by a quiet crowd. When he still didn’t get the desired response, the frontman said: “You’re never seeing us again, so you might as well fucking sing it. Know what I’m saying?”

Albarn had previously spoken with KROQ about the Coachella audience , saying: “I don’t know, it’s a weird one Coachella when it comes to audience you know. It’s hard to know sometimes because they’re quite sort of on their own planet really.”

On both weekends, Blur were joined by the Torres Martinez Cahuilla Bird Singers, a group of tribal singers from the area local to the festival’s Mojave Desert, California setting. You can find  highlights from their weekend one set here.

Later this year, a new documentary and a concert film will be released that chart Blur’s huge 2023 , including the making of their first album in eight years, ‘ The Ballad of Darren ’, and their two massive shows at Wembley Stadium .

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Fair to say America isn’t gripped by Liz Trussmania. Here’s what she can learn from Mr Bean

Our former PM has a dire warning and a book to sell, but it isn’t really cutting through. A bit more Brit-style bumbling might help

‘I know the name,” texts a friend when I ask if she knows who Liz Truss is, but like most Americans can’t quite put her finger on why. “Like 8%,” guesses another when I ask her to put a number on how many of her countrymen she imagines know of Truss. The standard response, in my extremely unscientific poll of Americans as to whether or not they know of Truss, however, was: “No, should I?” – the answer to which, of course, depends entirely on whether you want to understand why the Tory party is polling around 20% or whether you happen to be Liz Truss.

Truss, the only one of us to suffer that particular misfortune, was in Washington DC this week trying, like so many minor British celebrities before her, to catch the eye of the Americans. At the Heritage Foundation, a rightwing thinktank that hosted the launch of Truss’s book Ten Years to Save the West , she came bearing a “warning”. Not an ideal ice-breaker, perhaps, but one clearly tailored to an audience receptive to the frisson of the term “forces of the global left”.

She then provided a perfect illustration of how British people try to win over Americans. “I like to think of the United States of America as Britain’s greatest invention,” said Truss, a piece of comic rank-pulling that relies, for the joke to land, on the delusion that Britain is central to American thinking or penetrates American consciousness at all. Even the sorts of Americans who show up to events at the Heritage Foundation must have been politely baffled by this.

Still, it’s possible Truss did better than the other British export trying and failing to win over Americans this month. Blur’s performance at Coachella last week – and particularly that of Damon Albarn – delivered the timeless drama of a man’s idea of himself crashing into a rival and more widely held view. “You’re never seeing us again, so you might as well fucking sing it,” shouted Albarn when, during a rendition of Girls & Boys, he tried to get a call and response off the ground and the crowd remained largely unresponsive. “Know what I’m saying?” he added savagely. And they did, apparently, rewarding his yelling, sneering and eventual tip into bitterness by continuing to withhold their approval.

The challenge for Albarn, Truss and all the others who have tried to charm this particular away crowd is to project a jaunty, offhand confidence that somehow disguises the scale of the need and the fear of rejection. It can make for an odd spectacle, bad jokes and terrible sycophancy. “The world felt safer when Donald Trump was in office,” said Truss this week, and you wondered at her shamelessness – not because sucking up to Trump is unusual in America, but because, coming from a British person, even a former Conservative prime minister, you assume that she is able to see Trump marginally more clearly than her American counterparts, and that at some level she knows that we know this.

There is, however, one thing that may work to Truss’s favour in the US. British critics of Tony Blair used to hammer him for a smoothness that struck some as pseudo-American, and which contributed to his currency – or at least legibility – in the US. Margaret Thatcher’s strident persona had about it a force that, particularly since she was played by Meryl Streep in the movie, has been claimed by some in the US as “American” in flavour.

But Truss has something that can land equally well coming from British people trying to break the US: an effortless, almost Mr Bean-like social awkwardness that invites in Americans a rival condescension, and is frequently utilised by British people abroad. Truss’s odd syntax, lame jokes and occasionally unnerving eye contact may stand a better chance of landing in the US as charming eccentricity, or an extension of the standard-issue bumbling Brit.

Although, of course, in this case, it’s all moot, because no one knows who she is. The New York Times didn’t cover Truss’s book launch in Washington, nor did the Washington Post, and the book currently sits outside the top 4,000 on US Amazon. Her warning, whatever it was, will go not only unheeded but unheard – with no one more profoundly, one assumes, than Donald Trump.

Emma Brockes is a Guardian columnist

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Damon albarn: new track ‘the tower of montevideo’ out today.

DAMON ALBARN NEW TRACK  ‘The Tower Of Montevideo’  OUT TODAY

LISTEN + WATCH  HERE

THE NEARER THE FOUNTAIN,  MORE PURE THE STREAM FLOWS New Solo Album Out 12th November 2021  

On Transgressive Records PRE-ORDER HERE

The Tower Of Montevideo  is the new track from  Damon Albarn , out today. Inspired by Palacio Salvo, an iconic 1920s building in Uruguay, it explores Albarn’s melancholic wonder at this part of South America, where Rio De La Plata meets the South Atlantic, a place he has described as both “familiar and utterly otherworldly.”  Listen here.

To accompany the song’s release, a new special, cinematic performance film from a series entitled  ‘Sublime Boulevards – Performance Films’  is available today on YouTube.  Watch here.  

The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows  is the new studio album from  Damon Albarn , out 12th November 2021 on Transgressive Records. Originally intended as an orchestral piece inspired by the landscapes of Iceland, 2020 saw Albarn return to the music in lockdown and develop the work to 11 tracks which further explore themes of fragility, loss, emergence and rebirth. The result is a panoramic collection of songs with Albarn as storyteller. The album title is taken from a John Clare poem  Love and Memory .  In a career of perpetual musical shifts and exploration, the record uncovers more ground, finding expansive orchestral arrangements nestling with intimate melodies, discordance brushing up against infectious majesty, all set to some of Albarn’s most arresting vocal performances to date. Much like the beauty and chaos of the natural world it soundtracks,  The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows  vividly documents the emotional ebb and flow of the human condition, in all its extremes, serving as a soul enriching document for our times.

The tracklisting for  The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows  is:

• The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows
• The Cormorant
• Royal Morning Blue
• Darkness To Light
• The Tower Of Montevideo
• Giraffe Trumpet Sea

Alongside a digital release, there will be limited edition vinyl formats, plus CD and cassette, with the CD edition including ‘Huldufólk’ a 20-minute “hidden” track of a new and original recording that inspired some of the record’s themes. There will also be a super deluxe version of the album, taking the form of a casebound book with additional photography, original scanned lyrics and artwork from Damon, alongside a white vinyl version of the album, a high quality digital file and a bonus 7” featuring an exclusive song from the recording sessions.

2022 Tour Dates

21 & 22 February – London (Barbican)  23 & 24 February – Dublin (National Concert Hall) 26 February – Luxembourg (Philharmonie) 28 February – Brussels (Bozar) 1 March – Brussels (Bozar) 2 March – Eindhoven (Muziekgebouw) 4 & 5 March – Paris (Philharmonie) 6 March – Lyon (Auditorium) 7 March – Hamburg (ElbPhilharmonie) 9 March – Copenhagen (KB Hallen) 11 March – Reykjavik (Harpa)

Tickets and information  here .  Pre-order the album  here .

Further Information:

Download high res press images  HERE

Damon Albarn is a singer, songwriter, producer and composer whose eclectic musical style and observational lyrics have made him one of the UK’s most influential and consistently interesting musicians.

A founder member of Blur, Gorillaz and The Good, The Bad & The Queen, he is the recipient of six Brits, two Ivor Novello Awards and a Grammy Award. Outside of Blur and Gorillaz, Albarn has a number of other releases, including  Mali Music  (2002),  The Good The Bad and The Queen  (2006),  Monkey: Journey to the West  (2007),  Kinshasa One Two  (2011),  Rocket Juice & The Moon  (2012),  Dr Dee  (2012),  Africa Express Presents: Maison Des Jeunes  (2013),  Africa Express Presents: The Orchestra of Syrian Musicians  (2016),  Merrie Land  (2018),  Africa Express Presents: Egoli  (2019), as well as his Mercury Award-nominated debut solo album  Everyday Robots  (2014).