Blur "Parklife" (2026 Reissue) 2025-08-22 Newport Folk Festival and Coachella

Newport Folk Festival and Coachella Music Festival

arrives hot on the heels of the band's first Sub Pop release

for love and communion – goes on forever

5 million streams Debut album on Century Media Records from the electro-metal-trip-hop-dance-jazz pioneers from Shreveport

exclusive liner notes by director Stuart Gordon

Blur "Parklife" (2026 Reissue) 2025-08-22 Newport Folk Festival and CoachellaBlur were formed in 1989 by Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree and signed with Food EMI the same year. Announcing their arrival with debut album Leisure in 1991, Blur continued to revolutionise the sound of English popular music with second release Modern Life Is Rubbish(1993). Five successive UK #1 albums followed with Parklife (1994) and The Great Escape (1995) helping to propel the band to mass popularity in the UK and beyond.