Blur 21
out July 30, 2012
Twenty-one years after the release of their first album, 1991’s “Leisure”, and in response to growing public demand, Blur’s work has been compiled by the band and brought together in a box set released by Parlophone on July 30, 2012.
All seven studio albums will be reunited with over five and a half hours of bonus material, including sixty-five previously unreleased tracks and more than double that number of rarities, three DVDs, a collector’s book (containing rare or never-before-seen photos and a brand-new interview with the band), and a limited-edition collector’s vinyl single of “Seymour”. The box set will also contain a special code enabling the full album and bonus material to be downloaded legally.
This collection, whose first five albums were remastered at Abbey Road by Frank Arkwright, was supervised by Graham Coxon and producer Stephen Street.
Highlights include early versions of tracks recorded for “Leisure”, basic demos of classics “For Tomorrow” and “Beetlebum”, previously unreleased songs such as “Saturday Morning” and “Hope You Find Your Suburbs”, and never-before-released extracts from sessions with Bill Laswell and XTC legend Andy Partridge. Other rarities include “Don’t Bomb When You’re The Bomb”, “The Wassailling Song” and “Fools Day”, available on CD for the first time. The DVDs include the “Live At Alexandra Palace 1994” and “Live At Wembley 1999” concerts.
Alongside this twenty-one-disc box set, the band’s seven albums will be available for sale separately, along with a second disc of B-sides, rare tracks and bonus material.
A vinyl box set will also be available, with all seven albums (13 LPs) offered on 180g vinyl, to showcase iconic covers by Banksy, David Shrigley or Graham Coxon. The vinyl box set will include a code to download all bonus tracks. Each of the seven albums will also be offered separately, on heavyweight vinyl.
Blur’s seven studio albums are: “Leisure” (1991), “Modern Life Is Rubbish” (1993), “Parklife” (1994), “The Great Escape” (1995), “Blur” (1997), “13” (1999) and “Think Tank” (2003).
Complete tracklistings (including bonus and unreleased tracks) at www.blur.co.uk/blur21
www.blur.co.uk
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