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"The summer that began to Blur has put us on the calendar," runs a line in the single "This Summer", an odd reverse homage which seeks to reclaim Squeeze's rightful place in the Cockney Brit-pop hierarchy. There's also a track called "Great Escape", though it's far from the cheery-Blurry archetype, being a dyspeptic tale of male selfishness and thus well in line with this album's trenchant accounts of marital distress and moody behaviour. While Blur are successfully following the same furrow Squeeze ploughed in their youth, Difford and Tilbrook have found that at the other end of the field stretches a long line of mid-life crises.