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Track List
01) Tender
02) Bugman
03) Coffee & TV 
04) Swamp Song
05) 1992
06) B.L.U.R.E.M.I.
07) Battle
08) Mellow Song
09) Trailerpark
10) Caramel
11) Trimm Trabb
12) No Distance Left to Run
13) Optigan 1
01) Tender
02) Bugman
03) Coffee & TV
04) Swamp Song
05) 1992
06) B.L.U.R.E.M.I.
07) Battle
08) Mellow Song
09) Trailerpark
10) Caramel
11) Trimm Trabb
12) No Distance Left to Run
13) Optigan 1
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4:47
5:58
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5:29
2:52
7:43
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7:38
5:37
3:27
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First Released
1999
Alternative Rock
Poignant
Britpop
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13 est le sixième album du groupe rock britannique Blur. Sorti le 15 mars 1999, il est en grande partie le résultat de gigantesques improvisations du groupe, reprises ensuite par un méticuleux travail d'élagage et de mise en forme du producteur William Orbit. Blur y délaisse totalement son style brit-pop, virage amorcé par l'album Blur en 1997, pour acquérir un son résolument lo-fi et expérimental.
Damon Albarn a pu dire à la sortie de l'album que 13 se rapprochait de leur premier opus, Leisure (1991), pour la raison que les deux étaient écrits à la première personne, alors que les autres albums étaient narrés à la troisième personne. En effet, après avoir, sur la trilogie Modern Life Is Rubbish - Parklife - The Great Escape, développé une écriture critique héritée de Ray Davies des Kinks, mettant en scène nombre de personnages caricaturaux du quotidien britannique, Damon Albarn retourne avec 13 à une écriture plus personnelle, probablement sous le coup de sa rupture avec sa compagne, après une relation de plusieurs années.
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Following the blatant reaction to the Britpop hangover in the Essex band's previous album Blur, which saw the four-piece adopt the style of an American lo-fi act, 13 was perhaps the band's most experimental effort. With ambient housemeister, William Orbit, in the producer's chair, the sonic landscape came very much from the mind of guitarist Graham Coxon.
Again it was America that provided the template, mixed in with a healthy dose of Krautrock (Trimm Trabb) and electronica. Tender is mutant gospel that lifts you up while remaining quite cynical. The only thing on offer that really sounded like the band of old was Coffee And TV.
Shot through with the bleatings of a newly-bereft Damon Albarn, nursing a broken heart after his split with Justine Frischman of Elastica, songs like 1992, Caramel or No Distance Left To Run dripped weary disaffection. This was a band now completely out of love with pop.
With hindsight it's easy to see how a greatest hits tour after this could only place a strain on the band that they'd never weather. 13 is the sound of young minds fracturing under the weight of expectation and their own desire to do more than just create three-minute smashes. As Albarn whispers on Caramel, ''I've gotta get better, I've gotta find genius''. But by this time it was too late. Luckily for us the sound of a genius band disintegrating still equals genius. Combined with a tasteful and intricate prioduction job, 13 may one day, be classed as their greatest work.
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13 est le sixième album du groupe rock britannique Blur. Sorti le 15 mars 1999, il est en grande partie le résultat de gigantesques improvisations du groupe, reprises ensuite par un méticuleux travail d'élagage et de mise en forme du producteur William Orbit. Blur y délaisse totalement son style brit-pop, virage amorcé par l'album Blur en 1997, pour acquérir un son résolument lo-fi et expérimental.
Damon Albarn a pu dire à la sortie de l'album que 13 se rapprochait de leur premier opus, Leisure (1991), pour la raison que les deux étaient écrits à la première personne, alors que les autres albums étaient narrés à la troisième personne. En effet, après avoir, sur la trilogie Modern Life Is Rubbish - Parklife - The Great Escape, développé une écriture critique héritée de Ray Davies des Kinks, mettant en scène nombre de personnages caricaturaux du quotidien britannique, Damon Albarn retourne avec 13 à une écriture plus personnelle, probablement sous le coup de sa rupture avec sa compagne, après une relation de plusieurs années.
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Following the blatant reaction to the Britpop hangover in the Essex band's previous album Blur, which saw the four-piece adopt the style of an American lo-fi act, 13 was perhaps the band's most experimental effort. With ambient housemeister, William Orbit, in the producer's chair, the sonic landscape came very much from the mind of guitarist Graham Coxon.
Again it was America that provided the template, mixed in with a healthy dose of Krautrock (Trimm Trabb) and electronica. Tender is mutant gospel that lifts you up while remaining quite cynical. The only thing on offer that really sounded like the band of old was Coffee And TV.
Shot through with the bleatings of a newly-bereft Damon Albarn, nursing a broken heart after his split with Justine Frischman of Elastica, songs like 1992, Caramel or No Distance Left To Run dripped weary disaffection. This was a band now completely out of love with pop.
With hindsight it's easy to see how a greatest hits tour after this could only place a strain on the band that they'd never weather. 13 is the sound of young minds fracturing under the weight of expectation and their own desire to do more than just create three-minute smashes. As Albarn whispers on Caramel, ''I've gotta get better, I've gotta find genius''. But by this time it was too late. Luckily for us the sound of a genius band disintegrating still equals genius. Combined with a tasteful and intricate prioduction job, 13 may one day, be classed as their greatest work.
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