Blur

Blur have released a single called Fool's Day.

Let me recap simply...
In 1999, Blur entered into a hiatus: Damon was busy creating Gorillaz, Graham went solo and Alex collaborated with people like Marianne Faithfull. Impressive stuff. I'm sure Dave was very busy doing something drummer-ish too...
In 2002 they agreed to record another album in Morrocco, except Graham Coxon had a few probs and left.
In 2003 therefore they recorded Think Tank without Coxon, which changed their sound (less pop, more electro and simpler riffs due to Damon having to play guitar).
They took another break, then in 2009 they got together again (including Coxon) to do a number of gigs. I went to one in Rough Trade East (the big one off Brick Lane), it was brilliant. Unfortunately I didn't go to Glastonbury last year, apparently they were epic.

On Saturday they released their first single for 7 years, 1000 copies of the limited edition 7" for Record Store Day. As you can imagine I am very very annoyed I didn't go to Record Store Day because they are now selling for £200 on eBay. They have also made the mp3 download free on their website however, which is nice of them. Although I've noticed it isn't the full song - it's cut off about a minute earlier than it usually ends.

Another lovely sunny song. I like the way it seems like he's singing about the day on which he recorded the song (''Porridge done, I take my kid to school''). I guess he did write it on April the 1st because it's called 'Fool's Day' and he sings 'Called out by the sun on the first day of April'. I guess that's obvious and I'm being slightly dim.
Anyway, it's spontaneous and honest and I like.