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BLUR-THE MAGIC WHIP-JAPAN CD BONUS TRACK From Japan NEW
AU $46.89
ApproximatelyS$ 38.79
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An item that has never been opened or removed from the manufacturer's sealing. Item is in original shrink wrap.
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Located in: Japan, Japan
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eBay item number:365213046598
Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand
- Warner Music Japan
- CD Grading
- Mint (M)
- Case Type
- Jewel Case
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- Japan
- EAN
- 4943674210091
- Features
- Jewel Case,Bonus Track
- Interpreter
- NA
- MPN
- Does not apply
- Music track
- NA
- Record Label
- WARNER MUSIC JAPAN
- Style
- Britpop,Alternative/Indie
- Type
- Album
- UPC
- 4943674210091
About this product
Product Identifiers
UPC
4943674210091
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7050157974
Product Key Features
Format
CD
Release Year
2015
Genre
Rock
Artist
Blur
Release Title
The Magic Whip *
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs
1
Reviews
Rolling Stone - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[Blur] has made its first new album in 16 years, one as quixotic and seductive in its modern searching and subversive pop highs as those Nineties winners." Spin - "[A]n intriguing statement of contemporary anxiety that often feels far more connected to OK COMPUTER and HAIL TO THEIF than it does PARKLIFE and 13." Spin - "The triumph, though, is that despite being a piece with Blur's best work, this ain't a retread." Magnet - "Blur's most consistently great album in almost 20 years....It's a joy to hear Graham Coxon -- undisputedly the best guitarist of his generation -- make a glorious racket once more." Billboard - 4 stars out of 5 -- "THE MAGIC WHIP is a fascinating snapshot of a group coming to personal and professional crossroads in a strange city where modern living leads to bewilderment and alienation -- subjects Albarn has explored in his many side projects." NME (Magazine) - "[W]hat slowly strikes you about Blur's long-awaited eighth album, is how reassuringly Blur it feels; advancing the formula but warmly accessible....Clearly the old chemistry came easy." Pitchfork (Website) - "Blur's always been puckish in spirit, its greatest gift the identification and gleeful subversion of listener expectations..."
Additional information
Blur dissolved slowly so it follows that their reunion was protracted -- a halting reconvening that produced understated singles and excellent concerts spread out over a period of six years. Finding a headlining appearance at Japan's Tokyo Rocks festival canceled in the summer of 2013, the band holed up in a Hong Kong studio for five days, producing several reels of jams they abandoned until guitarist Graham Coxon decided to shape them into songs with the assistance of producer Stephen Street, the collaborator behind their greatest albums of the '90s. It's an unwieldy history for The Magic Whip, a record that's casually confident and so assured in its attack it feels like a continuation, not a comeback. Certainly, its moody meditations are of piece with Damon Albarn's 2014 Everyday Robots and his noir 2007 project The Good, The Bad & The Queen, but those albums, along with 2005's Demon Days, put into sharp relief that The Magic Whip belongs not to Damon, but to Blur. Often, the rhythm section of bassist Alex James and drummer Dave Rowntree announces itself through a churning undertow -- James' loping interjections on "Go Out" call attention to themselves in a manner not dissimilar to "Girls & Boys" -- but Coxon claims this record, easing the band (and listeners) into familiar territory via the bright "Lonesome Street," an evocation of Brit-pop that soon curdles into the gnarly squall of 1997's Blur and then settles into a steady thrum that's reminiscent of 13 but stripped of despair. While it retains trace elements of melancholy, The Magic Whip jettisons the internal turmoil that fueled the turn-of-the-millennium Blur albums -- 13, the record Albarn wrote in the wake of his split with Justine Frischmann, and Think Tank, the album they recorded while the band broke up -- and it also sees the world outside south London, with Albarn skewing all his observations through the prism of Hong Kong, capturing the digital isolation through the pulsating neon rush of mainland Asia. There are hooks, there are songs -- songs that sink their hooks in slowly and fully, registering in the subconscious without notice -- but it's Blur claiming their status as an art-pop band, favoring texture and mood over wit and flash. Like Everyday Robots, there's an existential loneliness thrumming throughout The Magic Whip, but there's also camaraderie, a sense that companionship can pull you through, and that's especially true of Albarn and Coxon, who prove once again to be the other's ideal collaborator, refining, expanding, and sharpening their ideas, turning a potential throwaway to something quietly resonant. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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- a***y (3)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseItem was in good condition. Took a little longer then stated but that might have been from customs.
- a***r (1587)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseExcellent
- 1***2 (1)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseGot here pretty fast (Europe), exactly 10 days with express delivery. Pristine condition, not much more to say . For a more rare CD, its value is reasonable (I've seen others way more expensive) and the appearance is amazing, the cover is phenomenal and it had inside a little brochure with the tracklist, pictures of the original book by Ul de Rico AND Masayoshi Takanaka in the hardest outfit I have ever seen. 10/10 quality, 10/10 album, looking forwards to buying The Rainbow Goblins now :D
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- a***y (3)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseItem was in good condition. Took a little longer then stated but that might have been from customs.
- a***r (1587)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseExcellent
- 1***2 (1)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseGot here pretty fast (Europe), exactly 10 days with express delivery. Pristine condition, not much more to say . For a more rare CD, its value is reasonable (I've seen others way more expensive) and the appearance is amazing, the cover is phenomenal and it had inside a little brochure with the tracklist, pictures of the original book by Ul de Rico AND Masayoshi Takanaka in the hardest outfit I have ever seen. 10/10 quality, 10/10 album, looking forwards to buying The Rainbow Goblins now :D