Damon Albarn has told Xfm that Blur are planning to release an EP before the end of the year. On the new material, he told the radio station "I think we're gonna do an EP first, sometime by the end of this year. But you probably won't know about it. It'll just 'come out'. It'll be so, sort of, underplayed. It'll come out but you won't know it's us as it'll be so, well, not us. We've got the songs but we're gonna record them in a few hours and just be very laid back about it. But not musically laid back. It'll be aggressive. Aggressively laid back. It's the total opposite of Gorillaz."
He continued: "I can't really make another Blur record that's a big landscape sort of thing, due to my very basic guitar ability. Cos I want to sing and play so it has to be three chords. I can only do three chords and not look at the guitar."
He also indicated that Blur wouldn't mind playing a few live dates soon, saying the band would "probably do a couple of pubs round Christmas. To be honest with you, it'll be nice."