Damon Albarn Calls Arctic Monkeys Guitar Band Cool

Damon Albarn while performing with Blur (Instagram @damonalbarn)

JAKARTA - Damon Albarn said he believed that the Arctic Monkeys were the last "last great guitar band", adding that currently guitar-oriented music is almost gone.

While appearing on the Broken Record podcast, the Blur frontman discussed the musical situation highlighting the sound of the intructure with its nature on its six strings.

Although Albarn said he remains optimistic about the future of the genre, he believes it had a difficult time before it was recovered.

"I feel there's a bit of joy about guitar music anymore, it's not a bad thing because it's so sterile," Albarn started.

"For me, the last great guitar band was the Arctic Monkeys and I don't really know if anything that good since then," he continued.

"But now there's a band with enormous potential. It's really dismantling guitar music itself and reuniting it in different forms."

"You have some extraordinary new mutations of its genius."

The Gorillaz creator then shared his choice about the new bands he believed promised greatness.

I really like the Wu-Lu band, they look really cool. There's one that I took somewhere in rural America but I can't remember his name, it's narrowing it down, right," he said.

"Then you have a band like the Yard Act that looks cool. Obviously they're not new people, but I still see them appearing as bands like Sleaford Mods, brilliant. There's a lot of good language to use too, not this generic rock nonsense - I hate that, I love poets and guitars," he added.