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"I ain't got nothing to be scared of," sings Damon Albarn on Blur's seventh album, and he means it as both an opening gambit and a mission statement. Since his breakup with Elastica's Justine Frischmann in 1998, Albarn has discovered hip-hop, monkeyed with Gorillaz, gone native in Mali, and raged against the war machine.

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As reliable as spiked belts, chain wallets, and the distinctive aroma of trust funds is the love all hardcore kids have for the Smiths. Except it's not just love--it's looooooove. Often, when the bruised, bully-boy sadism of punk meets the bullied, bruised-boy masochism of that arch English quartet, the results either sound dreadful or get pigeonholed as "emo" or both.