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Volume 10 - http://www.volume10.com
Graham Coxon - Happiness In Magazines
http://www.volume10.com/articles/4/1/Graham-Coxon---Happiness-In-Magazines/Page1.html
Volume10.com Editor

 
By Volume10.com Editor
Published on 03/25/2007
 
Graham Coxon was the quiet bespectacled guitarist in Blur.  Now, on his fifth solo album (his second since leaving Blur), Coxon has really found his own voice in terms of critical and commercial success.  This punky, yet melodic album sees Coxon rail against popular fashion and culture, and in his more tender moments he has a pop at the trouble relationships will bring.

Graham Coxon - "Happiness In Magazines"
  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

Total Play Time 45:05

Graham Coxon was the quiet bespectacled guitarist in Blur.  Now, on his fifth solo album (his second since leaving Blur), Coxon has really found his own voice in terms of critical and commercial success.  This punky, yet melodic album sees Coxon rail against popular fashion and culture, and in his more tender moments he has a pop at the trouble relationships will bring.

All this is done not with vitriol, but with a good humour that shines through on almost every track.  The album sounds like Coxon is having the time of his life, and Stephen Street's production has brought out the very best of Coxon's musical and vocal ability.

Though a thoroughly original album, if you like Blur's 'Coffee and TV', then chances are you'll love 'Bittersweet Bundle of Misery', and when Coxon cranks up his guitar on the riff before the vocals cut in on 'Freakin' Out', I defy Skids fans not to start singing 'Into the Valley...'.