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13 is the sixth studio album by English alternative rock band Blur, released on 15 March 1999. Continuing the stylistic shift away from the Britpop sound of the band's early career, 13 explores experimental, psychedelic and electronic music. Recording took place from June to October 1998 in London and Reykjavík. The album marks a departure of the band's longtime producer, Stephen Street, with his role being filled by William Orbit. Relationships between the band members were reported to be strained. Marking their ten years as a band, 13 is the sound of Blur becoming, according to Damon, completely free. Lyrically, the songs are rooted in personal and emotional changes, most notably on two of the singles Tender & the heartbreaking No Distance Left To Run. The album also sees song writing contributions by Graham Coxon, most notably on Coffee & TV where the guitarist takes lead vocal duties. Album Store: Official Blur Store. Album backgrou. Listen free to Blur 13 Tender, Bugman and more. 13 tracks 66:44. 13 is the sixth album by English alternative rock band Blur, released in March 1999. The album reached number one in the UK Albums Chart and number 80 in the US Billboard 200. 13 spawned three hit singles: Tender, Coffee & TV and No Distance Left to Run. Recording history: 13 sees the band moving further away from their Britpop past into more cerebral and denser musical territory. Some of the songs, however, are evocative of songs from their previous efforts, such as Bugman, Coffee & TV, 1992 and Optigan 1. Much of. taken from the 1999 album 13 including the singles Tender, Bugman, Coffee & TV and No Distance Left To also marks the first time in Blurs career that they deliberately decided against having Stephen Street as a producer, as the band, and Albarn in particular, wanted to pursue a different sound that would be unlike anything they had done before. They instead used William Orbit, whose remix of Movin' On had impressed the band. Like its predecessors, the album was a huge commercial hit, being their fourth consecutive UK 1 album and spawning three top 20 singles. Critically it was much more divisive than previous efforts, with some praising their experimentation and others finding it to. Blur fits the mold of the monosyllabic, schwa- voweled noun system of Brit-rock nomenclature- Pulp, Bush, Lush, Suede. Now, after nearly a decade, Blur have grown comfortable with their image and talents. From now on, it's their mission to make ears and speakers uncomfortable. With producer William Orbit spreading gobs of digital fuzz, guitar wash, and deep- space bleeps in heavy strokes with William De Kooning- esque glee, the tracks on 13 bounce between studio walls, planets, and effects pedals until slowly unraveling and releasing with mercurian flashes and cherubic keyboa. Album 1998 13 Songs. Damon Albarns romantic woes surface in Tender, Trimm Trabb, and No Distance Left to Run, three of the bands most somberly elegant melodies. The band embrace Pavements murky guitar riffs on Swamp Song and 1992, while producer William Orbit helps them weave strands of electronica into the lo-fi racket of Battle and Trailerpark. Blur's 13 is a weird album. Overtly emotional, full of yearning and upset, yet scratchy, scuzzy, sonically abrasive. Before that, though, there was 13. If I'm being a proper critic, I can acknowledge that perhaps other Blur albums are stronger: Parklife poppier, Modern Life Blur's 13 is a weird album. When I first put it on the stereo I was told: Give it a couple of listens. A couple of listens I remember scoffing to myself. For Blur That's not what Blur were about, surely They were easy on the eye and the ear. They made great pop songs, even when they were being difficult. You didn't have to try with Blur. If I'm being a proper critic, I can acknowledge that perhaps other Blur albums are stronger: Parklife poppier, Modern Life more of an underground classic. But 13 is my favourite. Why . To favorites 0 Download album. Listen album. Songs in album Blur - 13 Live, CD3 2004. Blur - Birthday Skank Peel. Blur's penitence for Brit-pop continues with the aptly named 13, which deals with star-crossed situations like personal and professional breakups with Damon Albarn's longtime girlfriend, Justine Frischmann of Elastica, and the group's longtime producer, Stephen Street. Building on Blur's un-pop experiments, the group's ambitions to expand their musical and emotional horizons result in a half-baked baker's dozen of songs, featuring some of their most creative peaks and self-indulgent valleys. Albarn has been criticized for lacking depth in his songwriting, but his