One of the heroes of Brit-pop, Graham Coxon conquered the UK charts in the
mid-1990s as guitarist for Blur, scoring five Number 1 albums and singing lead
vocals on the hit single Coffee & TV. Starting up his own label Transcopic in
1998, Coxon indulged in a love for scuzzy, lo-fi, 1960s garage rock on debut
solo album The Sky Is Too High (1998) before delving into English folk and Syd
Barratt psychedelia on its follow-ups The Golden D (2000) and Crow Sit On Blood
Tree (2001). Leaving Blur in 2002 amid alcohol problems, Coxon fired back with
his fifth album, the more commercial, i...