Blur return

Damon Albarn has confirmed that a Blur follow up to 1999's '13' should get a January release. Speaking to MTV last weekend before a Gorillaz live show earlier this week Albarn said he was keen to nail the many rumours about if and when the album would be released. "The record itself will definitely be out in January," he said. "We'll put a white label out in the next couple of months and it won't have our name on it, but it'll take a lot of people by surprise. We're hoping people play it not knowing who it is. Hopefully the record we're just finishing will represent a shift. We're working with some really interesting producers, including Neptunes and Norman Cook." That said, the official line from the band and their label is that no release date has been set, and the NME reports that neither the Neptunes or Fatboy Slim have been definitely confirmed as producers.