Debut album from young Nottingham singer-songwriter whose breakthrough came with the songs "Trouble Town", "Country Song" (as featured in the Greene King IPA TV advert) and the single "Lightning Bolt".

《Family Tree》是由Nick Drake母亲与妹妹整理出来的作品集，录音时间甚至早于他的首张专辑《Five Leaves Left》（1969），大部分是他翻唱的一些民谣歌曲，包括传统民谣、Bob Dylan、Blind Boy Fuller与Jackson C. Frank等人的作品，以及2首创作歌曲的的早期版本。
这张唱片最吸引的地方是那种未经制作修饰的DEMO式质感，尽管歌曲都很短，但不时也录下了当时一些“多余”的声音，如老式录音机的杂音、歌唱之外的呢喃、玻璃器皿翻倒的声音、远处莫名的环境声以及破钢琴声里家人的笑声等。在一些蓝调（Blues）歌曲中，可以听到Nick Drake难得的轻松腔调，有种可爱的少年老成式的油腔滑调。
听Nick Drake的歌，会觉得尽管民谣是种容易讨好又容易腻味的音乐，但只要将活生生的口气、舌苔、唇线、鼻息和体味都投入其中，就能在简单的循环反复中制造出活生生的迷幻来。也许，所有的音乐都是并都该如此。

"Y'All Doomed" is the bonus track from the Japanese CD edition of 'The Magic Whip'.
Released on the same day in the UK as 'The Magic Whip' (Monday 27th April 2015). Available exclusively at the 125 UK HMV and Fopp entertainment retail stores.
Centre holed (rear only) die cut sleeve.

Blur have announced that they will release 'The Magic Whip', their first album in 12 years, on April 27.
The band – Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree – made the announcement at press conference hosted by outgoing BBC Radio 1 presenter Zane Lowe at Chinese restaurant The Golden Phoenix in London's West End, which is ongoing at present.
The album's producer, Stephen Street, also attended.
Blur recorded an album's worth of material in five days in Hong Kong in May 2013.
However, in an interview published by NME in July 2014, Damon Albarn said that because he likes to work in shorter, more concentrated periods of time he feared that he would never return to the tracks the band made while in Asia.
"There are about 15 songs we recorded in Hong Kong," he said at the time. "The annoying thing is, if I'd been able to write the lyrics there and then about being there, we'd have finished the record. But sometimes, if you can't do it all at once, it dissipates really and I don't know what I'd sing about now with that record. There's some great tunes on there, but it may just be one of those records that never comes out."

Blur are set to release a new compilation to coincide with their summer comeback shows.
The double CD 'Midlife: A Beginners Guide To Blur' is released on June 15, and features 25 tracks.
Apparently it has been aimed at those who missed the band first time around, before their recent reformation, with a statement explaining that "the collection has been designed as an introduction for those who might have missed out on Blur's prolific recording career".

布勒合唱團是英國另類搖滾樂團，1989年成立於倫敦，原名Seymour，由主唱戴蒙·亞邦、吉他手葛拉罕·卡克森、貝斯手艾力克斯·詹姆士和鼓手戴夫·朗崔組成。

Amazon.co.uk Review
Pulp's much-anticipated follow up to Different Class seemed, at the time, to disappoint those who'd expected more of Jarvis Cocker's turbulent kitchen-sink scenarios. Instead, in This Is Hardcore the band dished up 12 tracks of introspective claustrophobia based around the fall-out of the dramas they'd previously essayed, as well as Cocker's own double-edged popularity. Most of the tracks have hints of sleazy sex - the title track and the sublime highlight "Seductive Barry" being the most overt - but the perils of being the ageing partygoer are equally realized in "Party Hard" and the opener "The Fear". Likewise, the music is suitably ominous; possibly due to guitarist Russell Senior's departure, there's plenty of dense soundtrack moments and plenty of electronic flourishes that complement the mood well.
That's not to say it's all doom and gloom; the broken-hearted man about the house in "TV Movie" or the cathartic "The Day After The Revolution" are both classics. Indeed the only real mis-step is the lengthy running time. The bonus disc collects all of the excellent B-sides from the singles, most notably the essential "Ladies Man" and "The Professional", and while the unreleased demos aren't as enticing as those on the concurrent reissues, they'll certainly be well received from Pulp's ever-loyal fanbase. --Thom Allott