(Obligatory play on words: blur, focus, etc.)
I’ve been pushing this record on my friends for a while and now Susie has taken to playing it everywhere, too. Graham Coxon’s Happiness In Magazines has finally got a US release on Astralwerks and you heard it here first that it’s going to blow up BIG. The first single, “Freakin’ Out” finds Blur’s departed guitarist mining the same US indie vein where he found the football-stadium-friendly smash hit “Song 2″ (better known to most of the world as “Woo Hoo!” and not be confused with Imperial Teen’s “Yoo Hoo!”).
A lot of the album keeps to the same “I’d rather have been in Pavement” genre, but every so often Graham gives into his Britpop jones. I predict at least two very big singles off this record — the second will be “Spectacular” — but the average radio listener probably won’t get to hear the more reflective songs, so I’m featuring one of those today.
And of course as a proud member of the magazine publishing business, I can’t help but like an album with that title.
[Soundtrack]
Graham Coxon – Are You Ready?.mp3
Graham Coxon tour schedule is on this page (below Reba McEntire)
