Britpop vets Blur have announced a long awaited album that will contain material dreamed up on their Hong Kong tour more than 20 months ago.
At a press conference in a London Chinese restaurant yesterday (classy, lads), frontman Damon Albarn said “The Magic Whip” – which features a neon ice cream and Chinese characters on the cover – will be the band’s first album in 12 years.
Obviously they had a chance to try our famous ice cream during their stay. They could just have easily have called the album “The Crazy Minibus”, we suppose.
The news comes after Hong Kong fans had largely given up hope that the long-standing four piece would indeed release songs from their week-long stint in the city in May 2013, as promised by Albarn at the time.
He told UK music mag NME last July that the weather was so hot in Hong Kong that the band couldn’t be bothered to hit the studio too hard. Diddums.
“The annoying thing is, if I’d been able to write the lyrics there and then about being there, we’d have finished the record,” he told the magazine. “But sometimes if you can’t do it all at once, it dissipates really and I don’t know what I’d sing about now with that record.”
However, the boys now claim they were able to piece what they had together into an album on later inspection.
The Magic Whip is set to be released on April 27 this year.
You’re welcome Blur and fans.
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