Description
Damon Albarn — Everyday Robots, Parlophone (CD)
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Product Details:
- Product Type: Audio CD
- Brand / Label: Parlophone / Warner Music
- Artist: Damon Albarn
- Producer: Richard Russell
- Release Year: 2014
- UPC: 825646331314
- Genre: Alternative / Art Pop
- Style: Melancholic indie, electronic-folk
Product Features
- Format: CD
- Tracks: 12
- Made in the E.U.
- Condition: Brand new, factory sealed
Overview
Everyday Robots is the first album Damon Albarn released under his own name — and after decades fronting Blur and masterminding Gorillaz, it's strikingly intimate. Produced with Richard Russell, it's a quiet, autobiographical record about memory, technology, and modern disconnection, built on subtle electronics, piano, and Albarn's weathered voice.
The standouts are understated: the title track's woozy reflection on screen-lit life, the warmth of "Mr Tembo," the gospel lift of "Heavy Seas of Love" (with Brian Eno). It's slow-burning music that rewards close listening rather than chasing hooks.
For Blur and Gorillaz fans, and for anyone who likes their pop thoughtful and a little melancholy, it's one of Albarn's most personal statements.
Interesting Facts
- Everyday Robots (2014) was Damon Albarn's first solo album under his own name, after Blur and Gorillaz.
- It was produced by Richard Russell, head of XL Recordings.
- "Heavy Seas of Love" features a guest vocal from Brian Eno.
- "Mr Tembo" was written about a baby elephant Albarn met in Tanzania.
- The album is largely autobiographical, drawing on Albarn's childhood and memories of London.
Track Listing
- Everyday Robots
- Hostiles
- Lonely Press Play
- Mr Tembo
- Parakeet
- The Selfish Giant
- You and Me
- Hollow Ponds
- Seven High
- Photographs (You Are Taking Now)
- The History of a Cheating Heart
- Heavy Seas of Love
Publishers
Released by Parlophone in 2014 (catalogue 825646331314). Produced by Richard Russell. Made in the E.U.
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