{"id":3122,"date":"2023-05-23T14:30:37","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T13:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/?p=3122"},"modified":"2023-05-23T12:24:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T11:24:05","slug":"blur-the-ballad-of-darren-21jul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/blur-the-ballad-of-darren-21jul\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-sale of the week: Blur \u2013 <em>The Ballad of Darren<\/em>, out 21 July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Blur - The Ballad of Darren\" href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.co.uk\/products\/blur-the-ballad-of-darren\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centre aligncenter\" title=\"Blur - The Ballad of Darren\" src=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/img\/rls\/offer\/2307\/Blur.jpg\" alt=\"Blur - The Ballad of Darren\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Blur<\/strong>, one of the most successful British bands of the last three decades, are back with their first new album in over 8 years: <strong><em>The Ballad of Darren<\/em><\/strong>, preceded by first single \u2018The Narcissist\u2019. The album was produced by James Ford and recorded in Studio 13, London and Devon. It\u2019s the sound of a band at the very top of their game, and comes with artwork featuring an image by British photographer Martin Parr.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note<\/em>: The LP is initially available on <strong>ocean blue vinyl<\/strong>, exclusive to physical record shops.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Blur - The Ballad of Darren\" href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.co.uk\/products\/blur-the-ballad-of-darren\">Click here<\/a> for more details and to order your copy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blur, one of the most successful British bands of the last three decades, are back with their first new album in over 8 years: The Ballad of Darren, preceded by first single \u2018The Narcissist\u2019. The album was produced by James Ford and recorded in Studio 13, London and Devon. It\u2019s the sound of a band&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,159],"tags":[147,36,829,830,194],"class_list":["post-3122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","category-promotions","tag-blur","tag-new-release","tag-pre-sale-of-the-week","tag-pre-sale-offers","tag-special-offer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3123,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions\/3123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}