Damon Albarn - .Everyday Robots (of Blur, Gorillaz and The Good, the Bad & the Queen)

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Everyday Robots is the upcoming solo debut studio album by British musician Damon Albarn. It is to be released on 28th April 2014. It was produced by Albarn and Richard Russell of XL Recordings and was recorded over a three month period in Albarn's personal studio in West London.

Track Listing:

1. "Everyday Robots" 3:57
2. "Hostiles" 4:09
3. "Lonely Press Play" 3:42
4. "Mr. Tembo" (featuring The Leytonstone City Mission Choir) 3:43
5. "Parakeet" 0:43
6. "The Selfish Giant" (featuring Natasha Khan) 4:47
7. "You and Me" 7:05
8. "Hollow Ponds" 4:59
9. "Seven High" 1:00
10. "Photographs (You are Taking Now)" 4:43
11. "The History of a Cheating Heart" 4:00
12. "Heavy Seas of Love" (featuring Brian Eno & The Leytonstone City Mission Choir)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjbiUj-FD-o

i wish he changed his legal name to "damon albam, of blur, gorillaz and the good, the bad & the queen."

lol

The single, amazingly, sounds exactly like that picture would suggest.

solo debut studio album

careful hair-splitting here

The single, amazingly, sounds exactly like that picture would suggest.

― Matt DC, Thursday, March 6, 2014 8:01 AM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Like it's fresh for 2002?

If you think about it, we are all every day robots.

In other news, it's been rumoured that Blur have recorded a whole bunch of new tracks.

http://www.nme.com/nme-video/damon-albarn---blur-recorded-15-new-songs/3262363196001/page/5

Not sure how much I want that Blur album to come out. Wasn't a big fan of that last single they put out but hey, if Suede can make a great comeback album then anyone can.

Is it bad that I want to know how long that final track is?

Can't listen to the single...akin to fingernails on the blackboard...

Not sure how much I want that Blur album to come out. Wasn't a big fan of that last single they put out but hey, if Suede can make a great comeback album then anyone can.

― Kitchen Person, Thursday, March 6, 2014 3:20 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm curious as what Blur's next move musically would be, whether it would be more song-based or more in line with their more exploratory works.

If they announce they're 'going back to the glory days of Parklife' then they're just the biggest cunts on Earth

Fool's Day was great i thought

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8ixnqRyfzU&feature=kp

Violently disagree

That Whiter Shade Of Pale ripoff was shit too

ha he sounds hammered in that NME clip. good for him like.

The first time I heard 'Fool's Day' I thought "hang on, are these guys ripping off Cutting Crew here?"

Have never bothered to listen to Fool's Day before but that is great. The riff that Coxon plays during the final minute is terrific.

I have only half-listened to the song Everyday Robots when it comes on the radio - my impression has been marvellous squeaky noises let down by a rather rambling song.

Can't listen to the single...akin to fingernails on the blackboard...

the song with Eno is 3:44.

ha i meant to quote:

Is it bad that I want to know how long that final track is?

the song Eno sings on is 3:44.

The title track is a travesty.

i haven't liked anything i've heard from this so far :/

8. "Hollow Ponds" 4:59

'Hollow Ponds' is the name of the ponds opposite my local hospital, Whipps Cross, which is on the border between Walthamstow and Leytonstone, so presumably where Damon Albarn was born.

The title track is a travesty

Agreed. I was really hoping it would sound like that Arrested Development song.

This guy is worse than Calvin Harris

Stop picking on him. Can't you see he has the weight of the world on his shoulders? Poor dude.

so here is the song with Brian Eno:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpO_F_F-Rcs

heard that song on the radio during the week. i dont think too much of it. id love him to make another the good, the bad and the queen record tbh.

Always nice to hear Eno sing. That baby elephant song I heard the other day was a POS though.

Tour:

04-30 London, England - The Rivoli Ballroom
05-01 London, England - Great Hall, Queen Mary University
05-03 Murcia, Spain - Festival SOS 4.8
05-05 Paris, France - Alhambra
05-30 Bristol, England - Bristol Trinity
05-31 Portsmouth, England - Wedgewood Rooms
06-06 New York, NY - Governor's Ball
06-08 New York, NY - Irving Plaza
06-09 Boston, MA - Royale
06-10 Baltimore, MD - Rams Head Live
06-12 Raleigh, NC - Raleigh Memorial Auditorium
06-13 Atlanta, NC - Fox Theatre
06-14 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo Music Festival
06-27 Beuningen, Netherlands - Down the Rabbit Hole Festival
06-29 Poznan, Poland - Malta Festival
06-30 Berlin, Germany - Astra Kulturhaus
07-01 Hamburg, Germany - Gross Freiheit 36
07-03 Werchter, Belgium - Rock Werchter
07-04 Roskilde, Denmark - Roskilde Festival
07-05 Lyon, France - Les Nuits de Fourviere Festival
07-06 Hérouville-Saint-Clair, France - Festival Beauregard
07-09 Paris, France - Days Off Festival
07-12 Novi Sad, Serbia - Exit Festival
07-14 Brescia, Italy - Teatro Vittoriale
07-15 Rome, Italy - Auditorium Cavea
07-19 Beccles, England - Latitude Festival 2014
07-26 Niigata, Japan - Fuji Rock Festival

He's got interviews everywhere now, for the new album (New York Times & more)

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/apr/27/damon-albarn-interview-pop-showbiz-beatles-dylan-heroin

the snippets I heard during the NPR review did not wow me. Reviewer Tom Moon loved it.

The sensation I get from listening to this album is similar to the sensation I imagine I'd get if I made a compilation of all the slower, more rambling tracks from George Harrison's mid-'70s discography. Don't get me wrong, it doesn't like George Harrison at all. But it is kinda just there, it isn't particularly engaging, it's a touch boring and from an act like Albarn one just expects so much more. A disappointment.

The album has some nice moments but don't think I'll find myself wanting to go back to it at all. Think it's time for him to let us hear those Blur songs they've been working on over the last few years.

Saw a little bit of him on Jools Holland, making a twat of himslef, crap song too

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Me neither. I find it even less engaging than The Good, The Bad & The Queen, actually. It's a shame, because I really hoped I would like it.

It sounds like the type of album you'd expect an artist in his 40s would make.

Which is generally not a good thing.

we got a full video of the song with Eno:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCUfitpIsW8

I like the "I'm doing a faux-casual shoot for GQ and I've got 15 minutes"-ness of that album cover.

I can't say I'm a huge fan. I like the electronic touches but generally speaking it's not that great. It sounds like monotonous background music. I hate talking bad about music, but it truly feels tedious, and people have accused me of listening to really boring, elevator music.

I'm going to give it another listen. The last track ("Heavy Seas of Love") is really nice.

"Heavy Seeds of Love" is the indie "Bound 2" (and also strangely redolent of Jon Secada's "Another Day Without You".) I'm not sure about the album so far - a lot of it sounds like a sort of failed attempt to make an avant-garde Sade album.

that fucking elephant song. jeez

is the rest at least better than that one?

I really like this album. In a way it is quite mature. Nothing really exciting but in a crappy year like 2014 this is top-notch stuff. By the way I never understood the fuss about Parklife. I found it really disappointing after the two phantastic albums before. It was more or less their sell-out. I blame the mediocrity of Parklife to Oasis. They had entered an unhealthy competition. Their next good album was 13. And it was their last.

They had entered an unhealthy competition

That came later

but it started in 1994 when parklife and the first oasis album came out around the same time in spring.

Oasis were pretty much unheard of when Parklife was released

Title track from this album is a serious earworm.

Don't think the Oasis album came out till the autumn of 1994. No one had heard of Oasis when Parklife was being recorded and Girls & Boys was a big hit before Oasis did anything. The "unhealthy competition" was more about 1995 and Great Escape.