My favourite album: 13 by Blur

Our writers are picking their favourite albums. Here, Miranda Sawyer relates how Damon Albarn and co helped her through the breakdown of a relationshipBlur's 13 is a weird album. Overtly emotional, full of yearning and upset, yet scratchy, scuzzy, sonically abrasive. When I first put it on the stereo I was told "Give it a couple of listens". "A couple of listens!" I remember scoffing to myself. "For Blur!" That's not what Blur were about, surely? They were easy on the eye and the ear. They made ...

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