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Midlife: A Beginner's Guide To Blur

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Midlife: A Beginner's Guide To Blur

Comprehensive collection of hits by the Brit-pop legends coinciding with their reunion tour

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8.0

Label
EMI
UK Release date
15/06/2009
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  1. 10.0 |   Uncut

    Flawless take on Blur’s 20-year career, Midlife charts the rich, often sad music being made behind the jaunty character sketches
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  2. 10.0 |   musicOMH

    Designed for casual listeners familiar only with their singles, Midlife highlights what their many loyal fans well know; that they also have songs that are far removed from radio-friendly formulae. And amazingly, this is the first time the under-appreciated classic 1992 single Popscene has featured on an album
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  3. 9.4 |   Pitchfork

    Sturdy, sometimes whipsmart, and endowed with more cracks and crevices and corners in which listeners can become lost than they're often given credit.
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  4. 9.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Designed for casual listeners often only familiar with their singles, Midlife contains many of the hits whilst revealing what loyal fans will already know; Blur have many songs far removed from their radio-friendly indie pop formular
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  5. 8.0 |   Q

    Print edition only

  6. 7.0 |   Rolling Stone

    Balanced nicely between their cheeky-monkey side (Albarn) and their later weird-guitar side (Coxon)
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  7. 5.0 |   PopMatters

    Any collection of this stripe will gain gripes about the insertion of this track or the subtraction of that track, but if Midlife was truly to be the “full” story, why not add in more abstract asides like the feedback ambience of 13’s “Caramel” or the fluttering electronics of the single-only “Don’t Bomb When You’re The Bomb” and showcase the true fringes of the band’s sound?
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