1.   Becker and Fagen are punctilious pop craftsmen who have spent a long time in the music business.

2.   Increasingly, though, critical consensus is placing Gainsbourg in the more esteemed company of pop craftsmen like Burt Bachrach and genre-straddling innovators like David Bowie.

3.   The band members are pop craftsmen who know how to shape good tunes and where to borrow useful riffs.

4.   The upside of this is that Blur would be considered well-respected men, genuine pop craftsmen with an unapologetically British bent.