Appropriately titled record for this week's political events. Democrazy was completely canned when it came out in 2003 with criticism of both the DIY sound but also Damon personally for choosing to release this. Over 20 years later, this vinyl only EP with it's spectacular packaging has been getting a lot of appreciation. Recorded during Blur's US tour for Think Tank, several of the songs on this would feature on later albums and come hits including I Need A Gun, which turned into the Gorillaz song Dirty Harry. Half a Song 20 years later became The Ballad on Blurs latest album.

Maybe it's because I was listening to a lot of DIY and outside folk stuff in the early 2000s that I found something quite intimate about this record and couldn't understand all the negativity. But then as a long time Blur stan perhaps I was biased.

The raw demo of Half Song is heartbreakly exquisite and the full version on The Ballad is just stunning, one of my favourites.

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