One Day Deal Blur Think Tank Paralaphone vinyl record

2003 – 2×12″ Indie Rock LP Repressed – 7th Sudio LP From Band -Recording sessions started in November 2001, taking place in London, Morocco and Devon, and finished a year later.
The album’s primary producer was Ben Hillier with additional production by Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim), and William Orbit. At the start of the sessions, guitarist Graham Coxon had been in rehab for alcoholism. After he rejoined, relationships between him and the other members became strained. After initial recording sessions, Coxon left, leaving little of his presence on the finished album. This marked the only Blur album to not feature Coxon as a full-time member until his return to the band for their next album The Magic Whip (2015).
Think Tank is a loose concept album, which Albarn has stated is about “love and politics”. Albarn, a pacifist, had spoken out against the invasion of Afghanistan and, after Western nations threatened to invade Iraq, took part in the widespread protests against the war. Anti-war themes are recurrent in the album as well as in associated artwork and promotional videos.