Damon Albarn Is Done with Blur for Now, Ready to Focus on Gorillaz Again
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Blur’s comeback album, The Ballad of Darren, arrived this past summer, giving fans their first new release from the Britpop legends since they went on hiatus eight years prior. Now, frontman Damon Albarn has said that he’s done (for now) revisiting Blur, and is ready to get back to focusing on his other project, Gorillaz.
“It is time to wrap up this campaign,” Albarn told the French publication Les Inrockuptibles (via Far Out Magazine). “It’s too much for me. It was the right thing to do and an immense honor to play these songs again, spend time with these guys, make an album, blah-blah-blah… I’m not saying I won’t do it again, it was a beautiful success, but I’m not dwelling on the past.”
As for what he plans to do in lieu of further Blur work, Albarn expressed excitement for an “opera which will be presented in Paris next year,” and confirmed that he will be going “to India with Jamie [Hewlett] to start working on a new Gorillaz album.” Evidently, he’s excited to have “new things” to focus on. “Once you’ve tackled an opera, everything else seems easier,” he said.
In July, for Blur’s cover story, Albarn told Consequence that he was working on an opera which would put German playwright Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s The Magic Flute Part Two to music for the first time.
Earlier this year, Gorillaz put out a new record as well, sharing their eighth studio album, Cracker Island. The band was booked for a number of live events, but canceled the tour in September.
Be sure to revisit our reviews of The Ballad of Darren and Cracker Island.
Damon Albarn Is Done with Blur for Now, Ready to Focus on Gorillaz Again
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