Blur documentary New World Towers available to purchase online from today

Fresh from its one-off screening around the UK last December, Blur‘s documentary film New World Towers is available to purchase and rent for 30 days on Vimeo from today (February 23rd).

The film charts the story of Blur’s 2015 album ‘The Magic Whip‘, from its unexpected origins in Hong Kong to its subsequent live performances at London’s Hyde Park and back in Hong Kong. The LP was the first to feature all four original Blur members since 1999.

“Given a tendency to pupate, you might’ve have been forgiven for thinking the ‘The Magic Whip’ could be a genre-defying return to the era of their esoteric genius, a brillo pad to the face, the Blur brand of zeitgeist-snubbing awesome,” our review reads. “You might be disappointed then: it isn’t.”

“Resurrected as a thing by Coxon and co-produced with their old muse Stephen Street, here instead are a dozen songs with almost no pretence wrapped around them, an approach which sees the foursome consciously playing within themselves, leaving hype to be another band’s problem.”