The most dramatic Blur songs are a friendly battle between Damon Albarn's ambitious pop ideas—he's a master of unexpectedly plangent chords—and Graham Coxon's singular guitar. During their ‘90s peak, Coxon would often spike up Albarn's sardonic synths with stabs of post-shoegaze, bolshy noise as on “Bugman”, or bolster a tingling ballad like “Best Days” with a beautifully unheroic solo.