Speedy Ortiz are one of our favorite bands from Massachusetts.
Blur are one of our favorite bands of all-time.
Add them together and watch us color the walls of Vanya HQ with bits and pieces of our exploding heads. Speedy recorded this acoustic cover for NME’s Basement Sessions while across the pond not too long ago, and we think Damon Albarn would approve.
The Northampton band’s latest record, Real Hair, is out now via Carpark Records, and Sir Albarn’s solo debut, Everyday Robots, is out April 28 on Parlophone/Warner Bros.
Meanwhile, Blur’s 1999 LP 13, their post-“Woohoo” album that first birthed “Bugman,” turned 15 years old last month.
You remember it, right?
It featured this gem: