While we’d sure love it if Blur plotted an official LP follow-up to 2003’s Think Tank, let’s not get greedy people: Damon Albarn is still busy promoting the Gorillaz’s new star-studded album, Plastic Beach, and, well, new songs are “definitely” on the way…

“I’m definitely going to do a few more of those seven-inches,” Albarn told NME (via Drowned in Sound), referring to their “Fool’s Day” single. “I love the no pressure aspect.” (As Ryan Adams would say (and did recently), “taking my time on things is the new release everything.”)

Albarn emphasized, however, “I don’t want anyone to think there’s an album coming soon, it’s not possible, but we’ve got songs!” As primarily a fan of the band’s classic singles, that’s quite the consolation prize, I’d say.

Blur released their first song in over seven years today in the UK in celebration of Record Store Day, though only 1,000 limited 7” physical copies hit shelves. Inevitably, Graham Coxon, Damon Albarn, and company’s new tune, “Fool’s Day,” sprung an interweb leak, which we opted not to share in the spirit of, um, Record Store Day. Good news, though: Blur are now offering a free download of this first recording since Think Tank in either 320kbps MP3 format or as an uncompressed WAV file.

Download “Fool’s Day” (in exchange for an e-mail address) here.

It was the summer of 1995 and the Blur/Oasis feud had reached its tipping point: The two Brit rock bands were competing for number one on the UK singles charts after Blur’s “Country House” and Oasis’ “Roll With It” were released on the very same day and the media ate it up. When all was said and done, Blur was declared the victor after taking the top spot, slightly outselling the Gallagher brothers. Blur’s Graham Coxon wasn’t very pleased, however:

“It felt like a hollow, pointless victory to me,” he told Mail Online’s Jon Wilde in a revealing interview about the Blur’s reunion. “Our record company threw a big champagne party at Soho House in London. I felt I was being forced into enjoying the moment and I just wanted to be alone really. I couldn’t handle being part of that crowd so I tried to jump out of a sixth-storey window. It was Damon (Albarn) who talked me out of it. Looking back, I should have enjoyed myself a lot more than I did during the Blur days (emphasis mine).”

It’s striking how many musicians become suicidal after their career reaches its greatest heights. Drugs and alcohol likely paid a big role in Coxon’s self-destructive behaviour, but Coxon did start to address his addictions later that year after getting run over by a car and drunkenly asking a cop, “Am I dead or alive?”