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October 16, 1998

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Think Tank

Brit-poppers Blur have lost their guitarist, and they're all the better for it. Former axman Graham Coxon plays only on the album's closing track, "Battery in Your Leg," one of several yearning, sorrowful songs on Think Tank, an album so disjointed that it seems to artfully fall apart as it plays....

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Early on, Blur epitomized the Brit-pop movement of the '90s. Frontman Damon Albarn's lyrics recalled the wry character sketches of the Kinks' Ray Davies, and the band affected an unabashedly British pop sound on its first four albums. By the end of the decade, however, Blur had refashioned itself in the mold of American bands Pavement and Sonic Youth.

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