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Graham Coxon Planning Another Album

You know what they say in rock-star school: If you sneeze and it isn't news, you still have some work to do. Graham Coxon, formerly of Blur, appears to have successfully tested those waters with a recent Billboard interview in which he revealed that his next album, on which he's already started work, will contain songs about love, and that some of the tracks will be fast, while others will be "mellow and melancholy". Our hopes that that Coxon will cover Double Nickels on the Dime track-for-track are thus dashed yet again. Dammit.

Coxon has just finished a U.S. tour (he likes "seeing the response from Americans, where they aren't afraid to be enthusiastic") and plans to take it easy for a while: "Take some time off, do some artwork for the next album. And decorate the bathroom." Two new songs, "I Can't Think Of Your Skin" and "Gimme Some Love", emerged for the first time at a recent concert, though we don't know whether they're among the eight already recorded for this unnamed follow-up to Happiness In Magazines. (If this all seems sudden, recall that Happiness came out last May in England; it just took eight months until its domestic release earlier this year.)

Like that record, his first since leaving Blur, the new one will be a collaboration with producer Stephen Street, which may bode a continued softening of the artistic prickliness on display in Coxon's earlier solo albums. Said Coxon, "Creative control is the ultimate for a self-obsessed lunatic. I try not to be control freakish about it, but with my own stuff I started to be that way, because I was so used to being in a group. But after awhile, you sort of cry out for other people's opinions and advice, which is why I got a producer in the first place."

* Pitchfork Review: Graham Coxon: Happiness in Magazines
* Pitchfork News: Graham Coxon Launches First U.S. Tour
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