"M.O.R." slips and slides with Pavement-style guitar but also lifts a chord progression right from Bowie’s "Boys Keep Swinging", while "Strange News From Another Star" is Sebadoh by way of Ziggy Stardust. Opener "Beetlebum", a dreamy ode to drugs, comes on like a lost late-era Beatles track. and Beck, the band took cues from the former's trembling lo-fi aesthetic on "You're So Great" (the rare track sung by Coxon) and the latter's early laconic weirdness on songs "Killer for Your Love" and "Country Sad Ballad Man." But even if you take the boys out of Brittania, you can't take the national influences out of the band. Led by guitarist Graham Coxon's love of artists like Dinosaur Jr. In 1997, after helping define ’90s Britpop, Blur unexpectedly embraced American indie rock. Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs.
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