Graham Coxon 'Happiness in Magazines' album

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1. Spectacular
2. No Good Time
3. Girl Done Gone
4. Bittersweet Bundle of Misery
5. All Over Me
6. Freakin' Out
7. People of the Earth
8. Hopeless Friend
9. Are You Ready?
10. Bottom Bunk
11. Don't Be A Stranger
12. Ribbons and Leaves
13. Right to Pop! (US Bonus Only)

Graham Coxon - Happiness in Magazines

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First things first, let's put the Blur reunion tittle-tattle to bed, shall we?

'I don't want to be back in the group,' says Graham Coxon, almost two years on from his split with Damon, Alex and Dave. 'I think that would be the worst thing for me. That's nothing against them - it's not personal - but I feel a huge weight lifted and I just don't think there's any need to go back. There would be no point. I'm in a new phase now.'

That new phase has involved Coxon spending bundles of quality time with his 3-year-old daughter Pepper ('If I'd still been in Blur my relationship with her wouldn't be anything like as good'). It's involved him going without a drink since 2002 (these days a Camden coffee shop is his local). And it's involved him channeling his enormous musical ability into making his fifth - and most accomplished - solo album. Really, it's an absolute belter. Where Coxon's other albums, though often brilliant, could be deliberately rough around the edges, shyly hiding their charms beneath scratchy self-production, rushed recording sessions and take-it-as-it-comes playing, Happiness In Magazines (produced by Stephen Street) sees Coxon puffing out his creative chest and stepping firmly into the limelight.

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Graham Coxon - Happiness in Magazines