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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

A BLUR SONG A DAY: Caravan

From Blur's final(?) album Think Tank, Caravan is a haunting, mysterious song. It contains the Damon Albarn trifecta: Eerie keyboards, the melodica, and la la la la la-ing. This and Ambulance are my two favorites from Think Tank, hopefully there will be a robust post Graham showing at the reunion concerts.
As their core fan base matured into their twenties and thirties, I think Blur's sound moved along too... making it impossible to "grow out" of their music.
I don't necessarily prefer post-Graham Blur, certainly all of the classic songs were Albarn/Coxon creations. However, songs like Caravan made it easy not to mourn the loss of Graham too much.

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