Britpop stars Blur are locked in struggle with occult rockers Ghost to most sensible the United Kingdom album charts.
An replace from the Legitimate Charts corporate has published that the 2 bands’ new reside albums, Blur’s Reside At Wembley Stadium and Ghost’s Ceremony Right here Ceremony Now (Legitimate Movement Image Soundtrack), are the frontrunners for UK primary.
Blur’s reside album soundtracks the impending live performance movie of the similar identify and is recently forward of Ghost’s providing.
If it claims the highest spot, it’ll be the 8th primary album for Damon Albarn’s bunch, following Parklife (1994), The Nice Get away (1995), Blur (1997), 13 (1999), Suppose Tank (2003), The Magic Whip (2015) and The Ballad Of Darren (2023).
The Ghost album is the soundtrack to their new live performance/narrative movie, which was once launched to world cinemas from June 20 to 23.
The band have by no means crowned the United Kingdom charts however have three times landed within the most sensible 10 because of Prequelle (2018), Impera (2022) and the Phantomime EP (2023).
Steel Hammer gave the Ceremony Right here Ceremony Now soundtrack a sparkling nine-out-of-10 evaluation upon its free up on Friday (July 26).
Journalist Matt Generators wrote: “After the live performance ends with an unsurprisingly rapturous Dance Macabre, the album epilogue comes from new studio monitor The Long run Is A International Land. An upbeat party of dwelling within the second, it’s this band’s first providing of recent tune since Impera, wetting everybody’s whistle for what’s to come back.
“Ghost have made no secret of the reality Ceremony Right here Ceremony Now is remaining this newest album cycle, and after those 90 mins of glee, their legions will march into their subsequent technology with the most important grins on their faces.”
Albarn was once lately within the information for arguing with Bob Dylan over the singer/songwriter’s transfer to prohibit cellphones from his concert events.
