Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0602517642522
Format: Import
Label: Polydor
Manufacturer: Polydor
MPN: 001106302
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Polydor
Release Date: April 22, 2008
Studio: Polydor
Disc 1:- Starlings
- Bones of You
- Mirrorball
- Grounds for Divorce
- Audience with the Pope
- Weather to Fly
- Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver
- Fix
- Some Riot
- One Day Like This
- Friend of Ours
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Editorial Review: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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bought this album on the streangth of hearing the single ( last track on album ) and I have to say how disapointed I was with the reat of the album, only buy this cd if your a fan of the group themselves
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Both the huge support/acclaim for this album and the John Sergeant affair are proof that we should never underestimate our enduring ability to occasionally do the right thing. Elbow are a great band. Never fashionable, no gimmicks, not much fuss but always able to create great music. All their albums are streeta aheads of the wretched Keane, Snow Patrol and Razorlight. Here they move into overdrive. Some of the most wonderful songs ever recorded by a British band are contained on this CD. Weather ...
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I bought this album after hearing them live on Colin Murray's show. They played some songs live, and they were so different to anything I really listened to. Instantly loving the songs 'Grounds For Divorce' and 'One Day Like This', I decided to purchase the album. The music they make is so chilled and calmed but sounds so good! I find this very good to listen to when I revise as I am a student. The album as is nothing dramatic, but rather calm and soothing. Some of the lyrics are very clever and catchy: ...
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This is pure genius from start to finish. I've just heard this may be ELBOW's final album.......One more please Mr Garvey...I and many others, judging by the reviews here, have only just discovered you!!
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Sorry to say I had never even heard of Elbow until I caught them on TV at this years Glastonbury.
Liked what I heard and bought the album (before they won the Mercury prize I hasten to add)
Was completely blown away by it. Have since invested in their back catalogue which have been equally impressive. All are highly recommended
It has certainly restored my interest in music .
