唱片的录音棚就是排练室，更早以前它是董亚千家里的老宅，闷在年代久远的四层红砖楼房里，周围住的多数是老人。乐队在这一片早起早睡的潮水里干活，扯淡，吃喝拉撒，无论昼夜，不知大中华盛世将至。 那些80年代的红砖还能叫红色吗，大概只能算煤球渣子的近亲。正如唱歌的最终会沉默，昨日奔跑着的青年和鸵鸟，一转眼就是今天的腐肉，秃鹫。不过，音乐不是为如此这般的现实伴奏的，它一直在它该在的地方，需要一路撕扯着过去的，只是我们。 这么多年，这么一帮人，前前后后兜圈子，现在终于出首张唱片。到了这一步，快和慢是另一个世界的话题。让企业家和文人继续开辩论会吧。专辑在手，大梦初醒，专属于个人的节奏，早就战胜了环境施加的心理暗示。药方就是我们自己，像羽毛，突然的，一下一下的飘落而至。 必须承认首张唱片是土法炼钢，各种自学试验，呼哧呼哧的吹风点火，完全没有大跃进的豪爽速度，反倒前后拖了快两年。修改打磨，福祸焉知。硬伤是免不了的。有时候像拳头打进了棉花，那种落空和被瞬间软化的悲哀，简直让人恨不得放弃所有的努力。相信许多中国乐队也都经历过。不多说。Leonard Cohen 的名言最适合用来安慰：一半怪自己，一半怪环境。 设备东拼西凑，制作也七嘴八舌，反正各种借，骗，着急和糊涂，旧交新朋全部派上了用场。万能青年旅店，名字叫的清楚响亮，自己没开张的时候先轮番被大家招待，欠下的人情堆到天边。这就是生命里的各种麻烦吗。现在描述起来，却又像一幅理想世界的蓝图：众人拾柴浇油，吵吵嚷嚷间，一团火焰轰地着了。 90年代美式另类摇滚很深的影响过这个乐队，现在成员们的喜好包括老摇滚，民谣，爵士乐，迷幻噪音，酒后流行歌，草地唱诗等等，至于作品是什么，光自己说不算。 录音室的窗外，短暂出现过一大片空地。那是开发商圈出的牧场，即将到来的肥肉和鲜血，即将到来的千万人厕身其间刨食的日子。但它曾经是空旷的，好几个足球场那么大的空旷，尤其到了晚上，像真理似的空虚，神秘，给目光以憧憬的机会，让风进来，吹得更猛烈。 唱片完成之时，空地已经被耸立的高楼填满。我们渴望这张塞了很多东西的唱片还能留下空地的丝缕感觉，这样的话，所有听到的人，就有可能并肩站在一起。 谢谢大家。

Blur have announced that they will release 'The Magic Whip', their first album in 12 years, on April 27. The band – Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree – made the announcement at press conference hosted by outgoing BBC Radio 1 presenter Zane Lowe at Chinese restaurant The Golden Phoenix in London's West End, which is ongoing at present. The album's producer, Stephen Street, also attended. Blur recorded an album's worth of material in five days in Hong Kong in May 2013. However, in an interview published by NME in July 2014, Damon Albarn said that because he likes to work in shorter, more concentrated periods of time he feared that he would never return to the tracks the band made while in Asia. "There are about 15 songs we recorded in Hong Kong," he said at the time. "The annoying thing is, if I'd been able to write the lyrics there and then about being there, we'd have finished the record. But sometimes, if you can't do it all at once, it dissipates really and I don't know what I'd sing about now with that record. There's some great tunes on there, but it may just be one of those records that never comes out."

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