But between shared projects, Neil Finn has emerged as the family's more skillful and prolific songwriter, with solo albums that can easily stand alongside his bands' efforts.
The show at Terminal 5 was partly a test run for songs from the next album, due in 2010, that sound more like band efforts than programmed dance tracks.
It's a band effort, though James Murphy still suggests an opposition party of one.
Between the caliber of the musicians, the ambitious material, and Mr. Plant's vocals (his signature banshee wail has modulated to a more weathered, expressive attack, which Mr. Miller compared to jazz singing), the album — true to its title — genuinely feels like a band effort.
But perhaps its peculiar genesis – born out of jam sessions, moulded into shape by Blur's other protagonist – is what prevents The Magic Whip from suffering the fate of 2002's largely Coxonless Think Tank: an album that had plenty of great songs, but felt like a Albarn solo project struggling to pass itself off as a band effort.
It's not about whether the market can't sustain the different ones, it's really more important as to where is the capacity to build and deliver and get the critical investment levels necessary behind that, and so I think it's a time where from our perspective we continue totally focused on Windows Phone as our smartphone in the upper price bands effort.
Keyboardist Jordan Rudess described it as "really going back to creating a real band effort, as well as drawing upon all our various stylistic influences".
He mentioned that he gave "more freedom" to the other members and called the album "very much a total band effort".
At the time, McCaslin wasn't even sure the music he cut with Bowie would come out or, if it did, how much of his band's efforts would make the ultimate cut.
But it is relevant that he did so in the context of a fight over what Chelsea saw as Band's efforts to trade on her father's name through his consulting company, Teneo.
