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Love Travels At Illegal Speeds

by: Graham Coxon

Release Date March 13, 2006
I was never a huge fan of Blur but I did like the single that Graham sang on - 'Coffee and TV'. I'd heard a few good things about his solo output and bought 'Happiness in Magazines' which I thought was pretty good but a bit hit and miss. It was good enough anyway for me to give this album a go and I'm glad I did because it really is fantastic. It's absolutely full of ideas and raw energy. I heard a rumour he played all the instruments himself - I don't know how true that is but it would make sense as the music just sounds really compact and finely tuned.

Don't be too put off if I say this reminds me of Elvis Costello or The Jam - it's more in the attitude and what I can probably only call 'Britishness' than the music itself. There ... Read More:

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Happiness in Magazines

by: Graham Coxon

Release Date May 17, 2004
I do like this album and I have listened to it a lot, but I have to admit that the quality varies a little bit in places. 'Girl Done Gone' still has a little bit of Blur residue on it, and I'm not at all sure what 'People of the Earth' is all about, but that's more than compensated for by tracks like 'Spectacular' and 'Freakin' Out'. And you HAVE to check out 'Bittersweet Bundle of Misery' which is just fantastic.

I think this album shows all the signs of Coxon becoming a pretty accomplished artist - and if you check out 'Love Travels at Illegal Speeds' you'll see how much he's progressed in the space of just one album.

If you buy this, I'd suggest you buy 'Love Travels...' as well. That one is his best, but this isn't too ... Read More:

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The Kiss of Morning

by: Graham Coxon

Release Date October 14, 2002
A good mix, slow, fast, angry, sad, uplifting. the brittinsh public don't know what they're missing.

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The Golden D

by: Graham Coxon

Release Date October 21, 2002
After the mellow and lofi debut this is the P-U-R-E R-O-C-K solo album we all expected. Some good tunes on here, but also some bad ones: "Leave me alone" is just cheesy metal parody, "Oochy Woochy" is skippable cod Jazz, "Satan Gaten" attempts to prove that he can use samplers too. He can't. It's awful. But the good tunes more than make up for it: The super distortion of "Don't think about allways" and the instrumental "Lake" are good examples. The cover of "Reach for my Revolver" is pointless. It's identical to the original down the missed snare in the verse. It makes you wonder what Graham was trying to achieve.
Overall the best of all Grahams solo albums by a long way. Only one mellow song on the whole album makes for a good album to jump around to.

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The Sky Is Too High

by: Graham Coxon

Release Date October 04, 2004
This has always been my favourite Coxon album. I love 'You're So Great' (which he sang and wrote) on Blur's self titled album and this is basically a whole record's worth of songs like that. It has that same lo-fi, intimate feel and its a great one to stick on yr stereo if you're feeling a bit gloomy cuz you're missing yr girl/boy.

It kicks off with 'Thats All I Wanna Do'. Its exactly what you'd expect from a Coxon solo tune - off-kilter acoustic strumming and deceptively simple, Syd Barrett-esque lyrics like "There's not a sound/ When yr not around/ And it gets me down..." and "I just want to be with you / That's all I wanna do." The song also features some excellent electric guitar doodling.

For the next few songs, the electric guitar ... Read More:

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Crow Sit on Blood Tree

by: Graham Coxon

Release Date October 04, 2004
His third solo album shows easily why he'll never front a cartoon on American chat shows. Damon will always be happy to put out music of whimsy, and Graham Coxon will put out music that sounds like whatever the hell he wants it to, without any thought whatsoever for its commercial potential, because that's the sound in his head. Unlike the previous 'Golden D' - which was a fiercely individual album of frantic punkarock and sonic excursions, the new 'Crow Sit On Blood Tree' seems to be the middle missing link between his first, generally tuneless 'The Sky is Too High' and the genius of 'Golden D'.

Half of this record is claustrophobically solo in the true sense of the word, where Graham performs every instrument himself, much like the first Foo Fighters album, ... Read More:

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You and I

by: Graham Coxon

Release Date May 08, 2006
His third solo album shows easily why he'll never front a cartoon on American chat shows. Damon will always be happy to put out music of whimsy, and Graham Coxon will put out music that sounds like whatever the hell he wants it to, without any thought whatsoever for its commercial potential, because that's the sound in his head. Unlike the previous 'Golden D' - which was a fiercely individual album of frantic punkarock and sonic excursions, the new 'Crow Sit On Blood Tree' seems to be the middle missing link between his first, generally tuneless 'The Sky is Too High' and the genius of 'Golden D'.

Half of this record is claustrophobically solo in the true sense of the word, where Graham performs every instrument himself, much like the first Foo Fighters album, ... Read More:

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STANDING ON MY OWN AGAIN

by: GRAHAM COXON

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His third solo album shows easily why he'll never front a cartoon on American chat shows. Damon will always be happy to put out music of whimsy, and Graham Coxon will put out music that sounds like whatever the hell he wants it to, without any thought whatsoever for its commercial potential, because that's the sound in his head. Unlike the previous 'Golden D' - which was a fiercely individual album of frantic punkarock and sonic excursions, the new 'Crow Sit On Blood Tree' seems to be the middle missing link between his first, generally tuneless 'The Sky is Too High' and the genius of 'Golden D'.

Half of this record is claustrophobically solo in the true sense of the word, where Graham performs every instrument himself, much like the first Foo Fighters album, ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 9
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Love Travels at Illegal Speeds [CD + DVD]

by: Graham Coxon

Release Date March 13, 2006
This is a little cracker. Punchy pop/punk, much like Happiness in Magazines. If you enjoyed that album you will like this. I hope with the next album Coxon goes for something a little more challenging. This gets 3 instead of 4 stars in that despite being very good it does feel like a bit of a retread of Happiness. 'Standing on my Own Again' has some nice power chording and emotive lyrics [what else from Mr Coxon?] after that the album settles into punk mode. Loud and fast guitar playing, if you see him live you know that he can recreate his guitar sound so it isn't too over produced though sometimes it sounds a bit processed. I recommend this album, the extra disc is well worth a bit more splash as you get Graham awkwardly shuffling his feet and telling you about each track, ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 10
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Thank God for the Rain

by: Graham Coxon

Release Date July 30, 2001
This is a little cracker. Punchy pop/punk, much like Happiness in Magazines. If you enjoyed that album you will like this. I hope with the next album Coxon goes for something a little more challenging. This gets 3 instead of 4 stars in that despite being very good it does feel like a bit of a retread of Happiness. 'Standing on my Own Again' has some nice power chording and emotive lyrics [what else from Mr Coxon?] after that the album settles into punk mode. Loud and fast guitar playing, if you see him live you know that he can recreate his guitar sound so it isn't too over produced though sometimes it sounds a bit processed. I recommend this album, the extra disc is well worth a bit more splash as you get Graham awkwardly shuffling his feet and telling you about each track, ... Read More: