On April 27, 2015, “Parlaphone” label released “The Magic Whip”, the eighth Blur studio album. It was recorded May 2013-November 2014-January 2015, at “Avon Studios” in Hong Kong and “Studio 13” in London, and was produced by Stephen Street, Graham Coxon and Damon Albarn.
Personnel:
- Damon Albarn– vocals, keyboards, synthesizers, acoustic guitar, iPad
- Graham Coxon– co-lead and backing vocals, electric guitar
- Alex James– bass guitar
- Dave Rowntree– drums, percussion, backing vocals
- Stephen Street– saxophones, programming, percussion, drum machine, mixing
- James Dring – programming
- Demon Strings– orchestration
- Stephen Sedgwick – recording
- Drew Smith – engineer assistant
- Jasper Dent – engineer assistant
- Armic Tang – engineer assistant
- Lee Wai MIng – engineer assistant
- John Davis – mastering
- Tony Hung – art direction, design
Track listing:
All tracks by Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree.
- Lonesome Street
- New World Towers
- Go Out
- Ice Cream Man
- Thought I Was a Spaceman
- I Broadcast
- My Terracotta Heart
- There Are Too Many of Us
- Ghost Ship
- Pyongyang
- Ong Ong
- Mirrorball