Superstate — „Superstate“(Aug. 27, 2021) ◊Ξ Jeho 12. studiové album. Kytarista Blur pokračuje ve své sólové cestě dalším soundtrackem ke svému novému sci~fi komiksu a vytváří svět disco~prog a “dystopian delights”. Áno tak. A vaše preklady ma nezaujímajú. Apropo, asi poznáte The Jaded Hearts Club, supergroup. Zpěváci Miles Kane (z Last Shadow Puppets) a Nic Cester (z Jet), baskytarista Matt Bellamy (z Muse), kytaristé Graham Coxon (z Blur) a Jamie Davis (z Coxonova bývalého labelu Transcopic) a bubeník Sean Payne (z bandu Zutons). Birth name: Graham Leslie Coxon Born: 12 March 1969, Rinteln, West Germany Location: Colchester, London, England Album release: Aug. 27, 2021 Record Label: Graham Coxon/Z2 Comics Duration: 77:01 Tracks: 01. Yoga Town (feat. Graham Coxon & Valentina Pappalardo) 5:34 02. Uncle Sam (feat. Graham Coxon & Rahel Debebe~Dessa) 4:27 03. It’s All in Your Mind (feat. Graham Coxon & Rahel) 4:38 04. Only Takes a Stranger (feat. Graham Coxon & Rahel) 4:47 05. L.I.L.Y. (feat. Graham Coxon) 5:06 06. Bullets (feat. Graham Coxon) 4:00 07. I Don’t Wanna Wait for You (feat. Graham Coxon & Sharlene Hector) 4:31 08. The Astral Light (feat. Graham Coxon, Valentina Pappalardo) 6:58 09. Heaven (Buy a Ticket) [feat. Graham Coxon & Vula] 1:48 10. The Ball of Light (feat. Graham Coxon) 4:56 11. Tommy Gun (feat. Graham Coxon) 6:12 12. Goodbye Universe (feat. Graham Coxon & Valentina Pappalardo) 6:16 13. Butterfly (feat. Graham Coxon, Valentina Pappalardo) 7:29 14. We Remain (feat. Graham Coxon & Sharlene Hector) 5:34 15. Listen (feat. Graham Coxon & Valentina Pappalardo) 4:45 __________________________________________________________________________________ 01. ‘Yoga Town‘ (Artist: Kendall Goode) 02. ‘Uncle Sam‘ (Artist: Eryk Donovan) 03. ‘It’s All In Your Mind‘ (Artist: Andrade Estevez) 04. ‘Only Takes A Stranger‘ (Artist: Anna Readman) 05. ‘L.I.L.Y.‘ (Artists: Luisa Russo) 06. ‘Bullets’ (Artist: Goran Gligovic) 07. ‘I Don’t Wanna Wait For You‘ (Artist: Ryan Kelly) 08. ‘The Astral Light‘ (Artist: Soo Lee) 09. ‘Heaven (Buy a Ticket)‘ (Artist: Koren Shadmi) 10. ‘The Ball of Light‘ (Artist: Vasilis Lolos) 11. ‘Tommy Gun‘ (Artist: Minerva Fox) 12. ‘Goodbye Universe‘ (Artist: Kim Canales) 13. ‘Butterfly‘ (Artist: Dave Chisholm) 14. ‘We Remain‘ (Artist: Ivan Stojković) 15. ‘Listen‘ (Artist: Taylan Kurtulus)
Review By Rhian Daly| 1st Sept., 2021 | Score: ★★★★ ◊Ξ It’s always been hard to pin down Graham Coxon in his solo work. Sometimes he’ll give us straight~up indie bangers, like on 2004’s Happiness in Magazines. At others, he’ll whirl through less radio~friendly fare and explore brave new ground, as on 2012’s A+E. Away from Blur, he’s also dabbled in creating scores for TV shows, like The End of the F***ing World and I Am Not Okay with This.
The world of soundtracks is where his latest release Superstate resides, although it doesn’t accompany something you can stream on Netflix. Instead, it’s an audio companion for Coxon’s new comic book of the same name, which collates 15 different stories of sci~fi “kitchen sink drama”, each with its own corresponding track.
It’s an ambitious project but one that shines whether you’re consuming it with the graphic novel or, more likely, as a standalone piece of work. Ξ◊ ‘Superstate’ technically isn’t credited to Coxon, as you would expect of the rest of his solo work. Instead, he is listed as a featuring artist, alongside a handful of female musicians. It’s a move that puts the focus on the stories the record contains rather than its creator, as well as placing his collaborators on an even playing field with him.
◊Ξ The tales found on ‘Superstate’ are curious and creative, and rather than distilling, the pages of Coxon’s comic are what inspired it. The record deals with a dystopian dimension that you’d like to think only exists in imagination but, in reality, is probably closer to home than we think; a place where society co~exists with robots as the planet limps towards death. Ξ◊ On the strutting ‘Only Takes A Stranger’, Coxon and Hejira’s Rahel Debebe~Dessalegne stand defiant against impending doom, cooing: “You won’t be hurting me / You won’t conquer me / There’s no controlling me.” ‘L.I.L.Y’, a rare solo moment from the Blur guitarist on this record that has a hint of latter~day Bowie to it, longs for a life outside of ‘Superstate’’s ultra~digital landscape. “I pleaded you to be human,” Coxon tells someone, later begging: “Recognise me for a moment / I know it’s you I’m programmed to.” ◊Ξ Musically, the album brings synths and electronics to the fore to create a wealth of buzzing, glittering disco~pop with an intricate prog edge. ‘The Astral Light’ sounds like a dusty gem from an ‘80s funk record flung far forward into the future via the elastic bassline of Blur’s ‘Girls And Boys’, while ‘Goodbye Universe’ is a stuttering homage to the sheen of ‘70s pop. Of course, at 77 minutes, ‘Superstate’ is a touch too long to keep your attention in one sitting but, it has fun trying to do so. — NME Ξ◊ https://www.nme.com/reviews/album/superstate-superstate-review-graham-coxon-comic-soundtrack-3034963 FAROUT MAGAZINE: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/far-out-meets-graham-coxon-on-his-new-album-superstate/
Interview: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/graham-coxon-blur-drinking-anxiety-b1908749.html WEB: https://www.grahamcoxon.co.uk/ Shop: https://shop.blur.co.uk/uk/graham-coxon.html FB: https://www.facebook.com/grahamcoxonofficial TW: https://twitter.com/grahamcoxon Interview: https://guitar.com/features/interviews/graham-coxon-reinventing-classics-the-jaded-hearts-club/
Superstate — „Superstate“ (Aug. 27, 2021)
◊Ξ Jeho 12. studiové album. Kytarista Blur pokračuje ve své sólové cestě dalším soundtrackem ke svému novému sci~fi komiksu a vytváří svět disco~prog a “dystopian delights”. Áno tak. A vaše preklady ma nezaujímajú. Apropo, asi poznáte The Jaded Hearts Club, supergroup. Zpěváci Miles Kane (z Last Shadow Puppets) a Nic Cester (z Jet), baskytarista Matt Bellamy (z Muse), kytaristé Graham Coxon (z Blur) a Jamie Davis (z Coxonova bývalého labelu Transcopic) a bubeník Sean Payne (z bandu Zutons).
Birth name: Graham Leslie Coxon
Born: 12 March 1969, Rinteln, West Germany
Location: Colchester, London, England
Album release: Aug. 27, 2021
Record Label: Graham Coxon/Z2 Comics
Duration: 77:01
Tracks:
01. Yoga Town (feat. Graham Coxon & Valentina Pappalardo) 5:34
02. Uncle Sam (feat. Graham Coxon & Rahel Debebe~Dessa) 4:27
03. It’s All in Your Mind (feat. Graham Coxon & Rahel) 4:38
04. Only Takes a Stranger (feat. Graham Coxon & Rahel) 4:47
05. L.I.L.Y. (feat. Graham Coxon) 5:06
06. Bullets (feat. Graham Coxon) 4:00
07. I Don’t Wanna Wait for You (feat. Graham Coxon & Sharlene Hector) 4:31
08. The Astral Light (feat. Graham Coxon, Valentina Pappalardo) 6:58
09. Heaven (Buy a Ticket) [feat. Graham Coxon & Vula] 1:48
10. The Ball of Light (feat. Graham Coxon) 4:56
11. Tommy Gun (feat. Graham Coxon) 6:12
12. Goodbye Universe (feat. Graham Coxon & Valentina Pappalardo) 6:16
13. Butterfly (feat. Graham Coxon, Valentina Pappalardo) 7:29
14. We Remain (feat. Graham Coxon & Sharlene Hector) 5:34
15. Listen (feat. Graham Coxon & Valentina Pappalardo) 4:45
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01. ‘Yoga Town‘ (Artist: Kendall Goode)
02. ‘Uncle Sam‘ (Artist: Eryk Donovan)
03. ‘It’s All In Your Mind‘ (Artist: Andrade Estevez)
04. ‘Only Takes A Stranger‘ (Artist: Anna Readman)
05. ‘L.I.L.Y.‘ (Artists: Luisa Russo)
06. ‘Bullets’ (Artist: Goran Gligovic)
07. ‘I Don’t Wanna Wait For You‘ (Artist: Ryan Kelly)
08. ‘The Astral Light‘ (Artist: Soo Lee)
09. ‘Heaven (Buy a Ticket)‘ (Artist: Koren Shadmi)
10. ‘The Ball of Light‘ (Artist: Vasilis Lolos)
11. ‘Tommy Gun‘ (Artist: Minerva Fox)
12. ‘Goodbye Universe‘ (Artist: Kim Canales)
13. ‘Butterfly‘ (Artist: Dave Chisholm)
14. ‘We Remain‘ (Artist: Ivan Stojković)
15. ‘Listen‘ (Artist: Taylan Kurtulus)
Review
By Rhian Daly | 1st Sept., 2021 | Score: ★★★★
◊Ξ It’s always been hard to pin down Graham Coxon in his solo work. Sometimes he’ll give us straight~up indie bangers, like on 2004’s Happiness in Magazines. At others, he’ll whirl through less radio~friendly fare and explore brave new ground, as on 2012’s A+E. Away from Blur, he’s also dabbled in creating scores for TV shows, like The End of the F***ing World and I Am Not Okay with This.
The world of soundtracks is where his latest release Superstate resides, although it doesn’t accompany something you can stream on Netflix. Instead, it’s an audio companion for Coxon’s new comic book of the same name, which collates 15 different stories of sci~fi “kitchen sink drama”, each with its own corresponding track.
It’s an ambitious project but one that shines whether you’re consuming it with the graphic novel or, more likely, as a standalone piece of work.
Ξ◊ ‘Superstate’ technically isn’t credited to Coxon, as you would expect of the rest of his solo work. Instead, he is listed as a featuring artist, alongside a handful of female musicians. It’s a move that puts the focus on the stories the record contains rather than its creator, as well as placing his collaborators on an even playing field with him.
◊Ξ The tales found on ‘Superstate’ are curious and creative, and rather than distilling, the pages of Coxon’s comic are what inspired it. The record deals with a dystopian dimension that you’d like to think only exists in imagination but, in reality, is probably closer to home than we think; a place where society co~exists with robots as the planet limps towards death.
Ξ◊ On the strutting ‘Only Takes A Stranger’, Coxon and Hejira’s Rahel Debebe~Dessalegne stand defiant against impending doom, cooing: “You won’t be hurting me / You won’t conquer me / There’s no controlling me.” ‘L.I.L.Y’, a rare solo moment from the Blur guitarist on this record that has a hint of latter~day Bowie to it, longs for a life outside of ‘Superstate’’s ultra~digital landscape. “I pleaded you to be human,” Coxon tells someone, later begging: “Recognise me for a moment / I know it’s you I’m programmed to.”
◊Ξ Musically, the album brings synths and electronics to the fore to create a wealth of buzzing, glittering disco~pop with an intricate prog edge. ‘The Astral Light’ sounds like a dusty gem from an ‘80s funk record flung far forward into the future via the elastic bassline of Blur’s ‘Girls And Boys’, while ‘Goodbye Universe’ is a stuttering homage to the sheen of ‘70s pop. Of course, at 77 minutes, ‘Superstate’ is a touch too long to keep your attention in one sitting but, it has fun trying to do so. — NME
Ξ◊ https://www.nme.com/reviews/album/superstate-superstate-review-graham-coxon-comic-soundtrack-3034963
FAROUT MAGAZINE: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/far-out-meets-graham-coxon-on-his-new-album-superstate/
Interview: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/graham-coxon-blur-drinking-anxiety-b1908749.html WEB: https://www.grahamcoxon.co.uk/
Shop: https://shop.blur.co.uk/uk/graham-coxon.html
FB: https://www.facebook.com/grahamcoxonofficial
TW: https://twitter.com/grahamcoxon
Interview: https://guitar.com/features/interviews/graham-coxon-reinventing-classics-the-jaded-hearts-club/