Damon Albarn calls Arctic Monkeys “the last great guitar band”

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Damon Albarn has shared that he believes Arctic Monkeys are “the last great guitar band,” adding that guitar music has gone “sterile”.While appearing on the Broken Record podcast, the Blur frontman discussed the state of guitar music.

Though he said he remained optimistic about the future of the genre, Albarn believed it went through a rough patch before its reinvention.“I feel like there’s a bit more excitement about guitar music again, that can’t be a bad thing because it got so sterile.

For me, the last great guitar band would have been Arctic Monkeys and I don’t really know if there’s anything as good as that since,” he said.He continued: “But now there are bands with a huge amount of potential.

It’s really dismantled itself guitar music and put itself back together again in a different form. You’ve got some fantastic new mutations of the genius of it.”The Gorillaz creator shared his selection of emerging bands who he believes are showing promise of greatness.“I really like the band Wu-Lu, they seem to be really cool.