Damon Albarn's 2012 release, Dr.Dee, was eagerly awaited by Blur & Gorillaz fans but ended up a bit of a disappointment, thankfully he has bounced back with his wonderful new album, Everyday Robots
The second single on the album is the opening track, 'Everyday Robots', taken from the album title, and is a reflection of how consumed we have become by technology, distracted to the extent that we are unaware of our surroundings, this theme runs through most of the album and gives good food for thought
Everyday Robots is very down tempo and almost a little sad, but in a strange way feeds your musical soul and leaves you optimistic by the end of it, Albarn commented in a recent Hot Press interview that he himself was puzzled by the fact a lot of his music ends up this way as he personally is of a sunny disposition
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While humour has always been a big part of Damon Albarn's creative side, look back at the early whacky Blur days, or the playfulness of Gorillaz, he seems to be getting a bit more serious in his later years, so perhaps we should take this opportunity to look at Damon as we remember him fondest ***WARNING - dodgy barnet alert***, 'There's No Other Way' from 1991, yikes
At the moment there are no plans for Damon to play any concerts in Ireland, but we hope and hope that his name will be added to the roster of one of the major festivals taking place here during the summer, hey, if this can happen, anything is possible, am I right?
Everyday Robots was just released yesterday and you can pick it up in any self-respecting music emporium right now, here's another track off the album, a personal favourite so far, 'Heavy Seas of Love'
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It's rare these days that a band or solo artist releases so many singles before the album but Albarn has released 4 in advance of this week, so we're spoilt for choice in previewing his latest work, again, on the technology theme, 'Lonely Press Play' on a basic level, shows how our portable media devices can temporarily distract us from our true feelings, deep, here it is
Everyday Robots is a great album, and thankfully Damon Albarn didn't slip into a creative abyss, at the moment it's a very solid 4/5 from me, but I wouldn't be surprised if that rating went up over the next little while it's that good
