Parklife
album by Blur
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Albarn
- In Damon Albarn
…critical and commercial breakthrough with Parklife (1994), a winning collection of pop songs in that vein. By the mid-1990s Blur was a chief exemplar, along with fellow melodic-rock revivalists Oasis, of what was called Britpop, and a frenzied media-fueled rivalry emerged between the two bands. Partially in response, Albarn and…
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Britpop
- In Britpop
…place with its third album, Parklife (1994), a collection of witty, seemingly light pop songs that held echoes of the Kinks, the Small Faces (see Rod Stewart), and Squeeze (see New Wave). Outgunned and outsold by Oasis in the great Britpop war of 1996, which was reported on by even…
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