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Damon Albarn, star singer of Blur and Gorillaz, also founded The Good, The Bad and the Queen. Nicholas Hunt / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP

The star singer of the bands Blur and Gorillaz in the 90s, famous musician has the word rare, Damon Albarn returns on "Merrie Land". News requires: this album paints the portrait of an England confused at the time of an imminent Brexit.

To show his bitterness and disappointment, the Londoner of 51 years, has gathered his collective The Good, The Bad and the Queen, a great group of Paul Simonon, legendary bassist Clash or Tony Allen, legendary drummer Fela .

Miraculously, this record has been well received everywhere it has been played in Europe. I am quite surprised because his language is dense, he takes a look at an England that changes, torn by Brexit. A country plagued by a form of division. It is evoked in songs as reflections, observations on a country, a people in distress, a world in danger of disappearing.

Damon Albarn evokes nostalgia for the bygone era of "Merrie Land", 03/09/2019 - by José Marinho Play

" Merrie Land " is the song that gives the name to the second album of The Good The Bad and The Queen, produced by Tony Visconti, David Bowie's historical collaborator, while waiting for the new project of Damon Albarn inspired by Iceland on the 24th May 2020 at the Philharmonie de Paris.