Blur on course to seventh Number 1 album as ‘The Ballad of Darren’ outsells Top 10 combined – Music News

Blur on course to seventh Number 1 album as 'The Ballad of Darren' outsells Top 10 combined - Music News

Blur are storming ahead in this week’s Official Albums Chart Update, with ninth studio record The Ballad of Darren currently outselling the rest of the Top 10 combined. It would mark the seventh Number 1 […]

Blur: The Ballad of Darren review – mature melancholia spiked with adventure | Blur

Blur - The Ballad of Darren

Nine albums in, Blur do not owe anyone any bangers. They are a four-piece very much in the post-urgent stage of their career, reaping the rewards of their long musical life at a pair of […]

Blur: The Ballad of Darren review – middle-age regrets voiced in gorgeous tunes | Blur

Cover art for The Ballad of Darren

‘We’re taking down the scaffolds very soon,” sings Damon Albarn, midway through Barbaric, presumably one of the songs he wrote for Blur’s ninth studio album while on tour with Gorillaz last year. Whether it was […]

Darren Hayes: A Coral Room by Kate Bush is the most perfect song of all time | Pop and rock

Darren Hayes

Wuthering Heights terrified me as a child. But in the 80s Kate Bush was mysterious and alluring, and as I got older I started to become fascinated with artists who were producers of sound as […]

Darren Tate and Above & Beyond’s Jono Grant Join Forces for Synthwave-Inspired Alias, JODA – EDM.com

Darren Tate and Above & Beyond's Jono Grant Join Forces for Synthwave-Inspired Alias, JODA - EDM.com

Above & Beyond‘s Jono Grant has caught the synthwave bug.  Working in secret alongside longtime friend and fellow trance producer Darren Tate, Grant has formulated a new collaborative alias, JODA. Dropping their debut track, “We […]