Never drink a bottle of tequila with champagne chasers and then try to demonstrate your gymnastic prowess, I advise, lying here in my hospital bed.
The damage is frightening: three facial fractures and three missed gigs by three of my favorite bands (Guitar Wolf, Mercury Rev and Super Furry Animals). I couldn't have chosen a worse week for hospitalization. Anyway, I've just received a bunch of albums I'd like to tell you about. It's the least I can do. Well, actually, it's all I can do right now.
Don't be fooled by the single "Tender," which sounds like country icon Gram Parsons backed by a gospel choir singing my-girl's-dumped- me-but-let's-be-positive lyrics like "Come on/Get through it/Love's the greatest thing that we have/I'm waiting for that feeling to come." The rest of "13" is nothing like it as Blur continue their back-to-punk-basics campaign of mutilating simple guitar-pop songs.