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ARTIST : Blur
TITLE : 13 (JP Import)
LABEL : Food/Virgin
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STREET DATE : 03/15/1999
RiP DATE : 03/19/2006
AVG BiTRATE : 184 KBps
ENCODER : Lame DNR (3.97b) -V 2 --vbr-new
GRABBER : EAC
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(#) (TRACK NAME) (TIME)
01. Tender 07:41
02. Bugman 04:48
03. Coffee & TV 05:59
04. Swamp Song 04:37
05. 1992 05:29
06. B.L.U.R.E.M.I 02:54
07. Battle 07:42
08. Mellow Song 03:57
09. Trailerpark 04:27
10. Caramel 07:38
11. Trimm Trabb 05:38
12. No Distance Left To Run 03:28
13. Optigan 1 02:34
14. I Got Law (Demo Version) 02:42
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Blur's penitence for Britpop continues with the aptly
named 13, which deals with star-crossed situations,
including personal and professional breakups with Damon
Albarn's longtime girlfriend, Justine Frischmann of
Elastica, and the group's longtime producer, Stephen
Street. Building on the un-pop experiments they began on
1997's Blur, the group's ambitions to expand their
musical and emotional horizons result in a half-baked
bakers' dozen of songs, featuring some of their most
creative peaks and self-indulgent valleys.
Though Albarn has been criticized for lacking depth in
his songwriting, Blur's ballads remain some of their best
moments, revealing their often-overlooked emotional side
-- when Albarn and crew risk some honesty, 13 shines. The
chorus of the album's opener, "Tender," finds Albarn
"waiting for that feeling," battered and frail, supported
by a lush gospel choir urging him to "get through it."
His confiding continues on "1992," which alludes to the
beginning -- and ending -- of his relationship with
Frischmann; on "No Distance Left to Run," one of 13's
most moving moments, Albarn addresses post-breakup
exhaustion with ambivalence, sighing, "I hope you're with
someone who makes you feel safe while you sleep."
While these songs reflect Albarn's romantic chaos,
"Mellow Song," "Caramel" and "Trimm Trabb" express
day-to-day desperation. Musically, the saddest songs on
13 are also the clearest, mixing electronic and acoustic
elements in sleek but heartfelt harmony. But for every
aspect of 13 that reflects something honest and open,
another blurs its focus. The meandering, undeveloped
interludes between each song pad the album's length to
over an hour, sapping its strength. "B.L.U.R.E.M.I."
doesn't really differ from the group's typical rave-ups;
similarly, the blustery "Swamp Song" and "Bugman" nick
Blur's punky glam-pop style of old, but sound misplaced
here. "Trailerpark" veers in yet another direction, a
too-trendy trip-hop rip-off that emphasizes the band's
musical fog. The electronica-tinged "Battle" makes the
album's noisy, cluttered aesthetic work, but otherwise,
William Orbit's kitchen-sink production doesn't serve the
songs' -- or the band's -- best interests. 13's strange,
frustrating combination of expert musicianship and
self-indulgent songwriting and production reveals the
sound of a band trying to find itself. With some closer
editing, this could have been the emotionally deep,
sonically wide album Blur yearns to make. [13 is also
available in a release with added bonus tracks.]
www.blur.co.uk
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