Blur have announced plans to release a massive career spanning boxset, Blur 21: The Box on July 30th. The anthology features 21 discs and over five and a half hours of previously unreleased material. From the band's official website:Blur 21: The Box is the ultimate and definitive anthology of Blur’s incredible career. Spanning 21-discs and including over 5 ½ hours of previously unreleased material, Blur 21: The Box collects together the remastered and expanded editions of all the albums, four discs of Blur rarities, three DVDs of live performances and rarities, a collectable 7’’ single and a hard-bound book - all housed in a super-deluxe material-covered box. Each box will also include a code to download all the audio contents as high-quality mp3s.
Watch the official trailer for Blur 21: The Box:
The entire tracklisting is posted here and you can pre-order now in the U.K. Though the boxset is a U.K. release, fans in North America will likely be able to order it from Amazon U.S. (for import price) around the time of the release.