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Audio CD
0602517640986
Polydor Group
Polydor Group
1
Polydor Group
March 17, 2008
56 minutes
Polydor Group
3
Disc 1:- Starlings
- The Bones Of You
- Mirrorball
- Grounds For Divorce
- An Audience With The Pope
- Weather To Fly
- The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver
- The Fix - Elbow, Richard Hawley
- Some Riot
- One Day Like This
- Friend Of Ours
- We're Away
Amazon.co.uk Review:
There are few things in life quite so liberating as the opening track on an Elbow album--they're like airlocks between the plainness of the outside world and the elaborate melancholic heave-ho that you are likely about to submerge yourself in. Following predecessors "Any Day Now", "Ribcage" and "Station Approach", "Starlings" opens their fourth album The Seldom Seen Kid rising from a bed of tumbling electronic subtlety like a depressed Atari game loading up, adding bare touches of piano, glimpses of ambient guitar, out of body background vocals, an understated pulse and a wisp of strings, before--EXCELSIS!--a fanfare avalanche of horns crashes the gate and elevates things to gasping palatial heights, before Guy Garvey's inimitable gravel tone and wrenchingly poetic reinterpretations of the everyday announce their arrival proper. It's astonishing, by far the most progressive moment on the album and if anything it sets the bar too high. But even when the pace dips, and songs like "Mirrorball" and "Weather to Fly" don't distinguish themselves quite enough, their textural peerlessness remains. This is a beautiful sounding record. Their collaboration with Richard Hawley may be more of a curiosity than a thing of beauty, but the highs, the riffing cross-stitch of "Ground for Divorce", the desolate grandeur of "The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver" and the enlightened string-laden anthem "On a Day Like This" (like their own Sound of Music--only substitute the Alpine peaks for a Manchester high-rise) number amongst the best of their career. --James Berry
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I've only just got to hear of this band and like others who've shared their views, I really appreciate the diverse and thoughtful music on this CD and look ... Read More
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I have to confess I'd never heard of Elbow until I was tuned into the Mercury Prize where I have to confess I was expecting to see The Last Shadow Puppets scoop ... Read More
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how on earth did this get so many 5 stars reviews - the world has gone mad.
fair enough they may be ok compared to some of the other popular bands ... Read More
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