Blur have confirmed that we will be releasing their eight studio album, 'The Magic Whip' on April 27th, their first new album in twelve years,
Damon Albarn said that the follow-up to 2003's Think Tank was a return to "the way we recorded when we started. It wasn't a flash studio, it was pretty claustrophobic and hot. We went in and knocked about loads of ideas."
The band made their announcement at a hastily arranged press conference in a Chinese restaurant in London, hosted by Zane Lowe. Albarn admitted that the band had gone as far as they could go without returning to the studio: "I really felt at the end of the last gigs that that was it - there was no way we could do another gig without an another album."
It will be the first to feature the band's original line up of singer Damon Albarn, guitatist Graham Coxon, bassist Alex James and drummer Dave Rowntree since 1999′s 13. Pre-order y our copy here.
Blur have also shared the album's lead track "Go Out". Check out the tracklsit and listen to the track below.
Tracklist:
01. Lonesome Street
02. New World Towers
03. Go Out
04. Ice Cream Man
05. Thought I Was A Spaceman
06. I Broadcast
07. My Terracotta Heart
08. There Are Too Many Of Us
09. Ghost Ship
10. Pyongyang
11. Ong Ong
12. Mirrorball
