Everyday Robots

AlbumApr 22 / 201412 songs, 46m 42s
Art Pop Downtempo
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Blur frontman Damon Albarn's last 15 years have included film soundtracks, operas, and collaborative projects including Gorillaz and The Good, the Bad, & the Queen. Everyday Robots is his first proper song-based solo album.

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Damon Albarn’s been involved in a number of projects since Blur first took a seat on the Britpop bench. He collaborated with Tony Allen and The Clash’s Paul Simonon on The Good, The Bad, & The Queen, wrote a number of albums with the Gorillaz gang, and even founded his own record label, Honest Jon’s. What he’s never…

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The Blur frontman's first solo record is a magnificent chronicle of estrangement and melancholy

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Everyday Robots is—technically—Damon Albarn's solo debut, a set of intimate tunes made almost entirely on his own,…

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If there ever were a modern rock star who could be called an auteur, it'd be Damon Albarn.

Damon Albarn's solo debut proper doesn't feel like it labours under the weight of anticipation - the Blur front-man has already proved everything he has to prove with Gorillaz; on his work on the Dr. Dee libretto; with supergroup The Good, The Bad & the Queen; and in collaboration with Bobby Womack and others

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Damon Albarn was the last person planning a Damon Albarn solo album.

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It's hard to believe 20 years have passed since Britpop turned the U.K.'s music scene on its head.

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Album review: Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots. Blur frontman goes solo proper with a memorable debut...

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Albarn decisively enters his old-man phase, delivering a depressive jeremiad on the sorry state of our tech-obsessed culture.

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<p><strong>Alexis Petridis</strong>: It's hardly the big personal reveal that it's been promoted as, but Damon Albarn's first solo album is still a&nbsp;lovely piece of work</p>

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Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots review: Whatever makes you happy on a Saturday Night

Damon Albarn new album shows him to be achingly aware of modern isolation, says Helen Brown

Britpop renaissance man gets personal on his solo debut. By Russ Coffey

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