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When we came off the tour for the last album, we started on this one. We've just been chipping away at it. We're not in that much of a hurry, because when we release a Blur album, that's a three year promotion and touring cycle.

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain - let's just say it's all I can really do while I'm doing it.

For me, the focus are songs, which really get the audience moving.

Usually, when we go out, it's because we made a new studio album, and that becomes the focus of the tour throughout the world for a year or so.

I'm very big on focus.

The touring for this album was definitely going to be the most intense touring we've done.

That's where my focus is all the time, trying to get on base.

So we are not doing the traditional album, tour, album, tour, album, tour anymore. We're going to tour when we want to, regardless of whether we've got a record out.

We've been working on a new album, which is going to come out next spring, which is very different, a change of style for us - it's going to be almost like rock music.