The Spinning Top
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| The Spinning Top | ||||
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| Released | 11 May 2009 | |||
| Recorded | 2008–2009 | |||
| Genre | English folk | |||
| Length | 68:26 | |||
| Label | Transgressive | |||
| Producer | Stephen Street | |||
| Graham Coxon chronology | ||||
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| Singles from The Spinning Top | ||||
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| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 66/100[1] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| Clash | (7/10)[3] |
| Gigwise.com |  [4] |
| The Guardian | [5] |
| The Independent | [6] |
| Pitchfork Media | (4.7/10)[7] |
| Planet Sound | (7/10)[8] |
| PopMatters | (8/10)[9] |
| NME | (8/10)[10] |
| Uncut | [11] |
The Spinning Top is the seventh studio album by Blur guitarist Graham Coxon on new record label Transgressive Records. The album is produced by Stephen Street and was released on 11 May 2009. It was Coxon's first album since Crow Sit on Blood Tree (2001) to be released while concurrently a member of Blur, and the first to be released following his returned to Blur in 2008.[12] It is a concept album that follows a narrative of a man from birth to death.[13]
The album was supported by the single "Sorrow's Army", released on 18 May.
The cover art and liner artwork, like previous releases, was painted by Coxon himself.[14] The two music promos Sorrow's Army and In the Morning were filmed by creative director Nick Craske. Dead Bees, the third single from The Spinning Top, was filmed by Chris Hopewell.
