release date: Sep. 11, 1995
format: digital
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,54]
producer: Stephen Street
label: Virgin Records - nationality: England, UK
Track highlights: 1. "Stereotypes" - 2. "Country House" - 4. "Charmless Man" - 7. "The Universal" (4 / 5) - 10. "It Could Be You" - 12. "Globe Alone" - 15. "Yuko and Hiro"
4th studio album by Blur originally released on Food Records and produced by Stephen Street is much of the continued journey from Parklife (1995) with a lighter version of britpop, although, they keep to their stylistic output from Modern Life.. with elements of punk rock bits here and there, and in this it's found on "Globe Alone". I don't find the album as consistently good as Parklife, but it's more than just Okay with a few great tracks and some fillers.
Like its predecessor it entered the UK albums chart list as number #1, and it launched the band's first number #1 single hit with the song "Country House".
[ allmusic.com, NME 4,5 / 5, The Guardian 4 / 5, Q Magazine 5 / 5 stars ]
