It took me a while to get into the first two albums fully and this one will be the same I think. I didn't immediately dislike it and a couple of passages grabbed me from the off so I knew it was going to be a grower.
A few people (not just here but all over the net) are bemoaning the fact that it's not catchy enough- so what? There are plenty of tracks on the first two that take repeated listens it's just that this album doesn't have any 'big' singles on it but that's something to admire in my book and shows that Albarn is not content to write a bunch of commercial singles and instead challenge himself even more.
I think albums like this push Pop music forward and I think in a few years time this will be seen as something of a mini classic.
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