Featured In
ALBUMNsera (Solomun Remix) - SingleFatoumata Diawara, Damon Albarn & Solomun
Albums by Damon Albarn
ALBUMThe Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream FlowsDamon Albarn
ALBUMEveryday Robots (Special Edition)Damon Albarn
ALBUMDr DeeDamon Albarn
ALBUMMali MusicMalian Musicians & Damon Albarn
Damon Albarn's Popular Music Videos
Everyday Robots (Track by Track)
Damon Albarn
Everyday Robots (Live from Fox Studios Los Angeles)
Damon Albarn
Lonely Press Play (Live from Fox Studios Los Angeles)
Damon Albarn
Hostiles (Live from Fox Studios Los Angeles)
Damon Albarn
Hollow Ponds (Live from Fox Studios Los Angeles)
Damon Albarn
Pt. 1: Damon Albarn on His Equipment Collection
Zane Lowe & Damon Albarn
Pt. 2: Damon Albarn on Collaboration
Zane Lowe & Damon Albarn
Pt. 3: Damon Albarn on Impromptu Jams and Inspiration
Zane Lowe & Damon Albarn
Pt. 4: Damon Albarn on West London
Zane Lowe & Damon Albarn
Pt. 5: Damon Albarn on the Cult of Cracker Island
Zane Lowe & Damon Albarn
Artist Playlists
Damon Albarn Essentials
From Britpop icon to art-pop prankster and ambassador for the global underground.
Damon Albarn: The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows Interview
Damon Albarn talks to Zane about his new solo album.
Artist Biography
Damon Albarn is the grand conceptualist of the Britpop era, spearheading its blend of knowingly retro aesthetics and modernist verve with Blur in the mid-'90s. The band hit with 1994's Parklife, then steered in a noisier, artier course. Such shifts in direction became a signature of Albarn's career. Once Blur began to fray at the dawn of the 2000s, he founded Gorillaz, a virtual pop group whose fame soon eclipsed that of Blur. This gave Albarn the opportunity to pivot to other projects, ranging from the atmospheric the Good, the Bad & the Queen and the Flea collaboration Rocket Juice & the Moon to Africa Express and stage musicals. On his sporadic solo records (2014's Everyday Robot and 2021's The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows) he crafted moodier, more introspective music than he did with either Blur or Gorillaz.
Hometown
London, England
Genre
Alternative