Recorded at Blueprint Studios in Salford with additional sessions at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios in Wiltshire, Elbow’s new album is produced by Craig Potter and released by Fiction Records on March 10. If the other songs of it come close to the brilliant things you can hear in this official video of „Fly Boy Blue / Lunette“, then it’ll be a great, great work! If you’re looking for new anthems, well, this might not be an obvious choice. The „anthemic“ element may be limited to the guitar solo of the first song which, at first listen, sounds like a slightly big gesture, but, at second listen, it has found its place in this laid-back performance of Guy Garvey. Both tracks are working with understated emotion, and that definitely serves the songs. (me)
2014 28 Jan