As Freakin' Out and the storming and very un-Blur-like People of the Earth ("About aliens. You must repent!") sends the roof spinning towards Mali, it's almost tempting to ask: "Damon who?" · Graham Coxon tours in May.
In some ways, the mild-mannered and economically sunny songs on "The Good, the Bad and the Queen" resemble tracks that Blur might have played; the band's début album is a song cycle about England ("a stroppy little island of mixed-up people"), a Blur-like concept.
The tunes don't become a tasteful blur, like those on "Disfarmer," from 2009.
At night the city lights sparkle and blur, like distant diodes on a giant computer chip.
"The details, the facts, they've become blurred, like soft focus in an old movie," says McNair.
In a fluorescent-lit rest room, her face in the mirror was blurred, like those faces on TV that are pixelated in order to disguise their identity.
Then, at a murmured word from Rothschild, the dog took off — body low to the ground, feet a blur, like a shaggy brown missile.
Then, at a murmured word from Rothschild, the dog took off body low to the ground, feet a blur, like a shaggy brown missile.
As shot by the masterly Christopher Doyle, this comedy of romantic befuddlement whirs by in an enveloping blur, like neon and traffic glimpsed through a rain-swept windshield.
The metaphors no longer even work: 'The garden tenses, lies face down, bereaved'; 'The Latin names of plants blur like belief'.
