Graham Coxon: ‘I Wanted To Go Somewhere Different’

Graham Coxon ‘wanted to go somewhere different’ with his forthcoming album ‘A+E’.

Speaking to DIY in this month’s issue of the magazine, the Blur star gave us an insight into his staggering eighth release.

‘I think I did want to do something different,’ he begins. ‘Because I love ‘Spinning Top’ but I wanted to go somewhere different - but without going backwards. It would have been easy to do that ‘Magazine’-y type of thing but it would have been a disservice to these jams I was writing.’

‘I was going into an area which, I wouldn’t say it wasn’t a comfort zone, but I tried not to do my default guitar playing. It can be totally boring when I’m very ‘Graham Coxony’.’

Was that always a conscious thought when making this album? ‘I didn’t have much of an idea when I started it. The demos sort of dictated how the songs were gonna be. I had these ideas that - I wouldn’t say were underdeveloped - but they were mostly focused on rhythms and drum sounds and there wasn’t an awful lot of melodies. I thought I’d take them to the studio and see what happened.’

Graham Coxon’s new album ‘A&E’ will be released on 2nd April via Parlophone.

You can read our full interview with Graham in this month’s issue.

Taken from the April 2012 issue of DIY, available now. For more details click here.