LOS ANGELES -- Girls and boys, Blur is back.
On April 28, the British rockers will release The Magic Whip, their first new album in 12 years and first album as a full original foursome in 16 years. Blur announced the news on Thursday in London's Chinatown during a Facebook live stream.
Blur, known for such songs as "Girls & Boys," "Song 2," "Coffee and TV" and "Blue Jeans," also debuted the album's first track in a lyric video. Listen to "Go Out," below:
Blur will play the new music, notably as the four-piece group that formed in 1988, in Hyde Park on June 20 during Barclaycard presents British Summer Time Hyde Park.
The band originally reunited in 2008 for a series of concerts, and have played together sporadically throughout the years, including at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
The Magic Whip is Blur's eighth studio album, which began in 2013 in Kowloon, Hong Kong, before the group revisited the unfinished tracks last November to complete them.
The album will feature the following 12 songs:
Lonesome Street
New World Towers
Go Out
Ice Cream Man
Thought I Was a Spaceman
I Broadcast
My Terracotta Heart
There are Too Many of Us
Ghost Ship
Pyongyang
Ong Ong
Mirror Ball
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