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Colditz A Knockout!: Blur: The Great Escape (Food)

Paul Lester, Melody Maker, 9 September 1995

If you thought 'Country House' meant BLUR were playing it safe, you haven't heard The Great Escape. Damon has laced his tales of commuter belt (non)conformism with traces of suicidalism and cocaine psychosis, and Graham has ditched the Chas'n'Dave-isms to create a schizo-futurist playground. This is the modern whirl, says PAUL LESTER

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