In ’97, the band embraced a more lo-fi, guitar heavy approach on their biggest American hit single, “Song 2,” dominating alt-rock radio that year. Formed in 1988, the band’s popularity in the UK and Europe was buoyed by mid-90’s albums like Modern Life is Rubbish, Parklife, and The Great Escape, which failed to win over American listeners in a big way but introduced a new generation to Brit-pop sounds popularized by earlier innovators like The Kinks and XTC. It’s almost impossible to imagine the pressures-whether on the outside from fans and the press, or relationally between the band’s 4 musicians, each pursuing their diverse side-projects, or as artists living in the shadow of your previous triumphs-on Brit-pop band, Blur, as they reconvene to record their 9 th studio album, eight years after their previous release.
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