loving the new record

Amazing... absolutely amazing...

:bomb: One more day

Amazing... absolutely amazing...

Thief! :P

:laugh3:

People are loving it, eh? To be fair, I've only had one listen, I'll give it another listen tomorrow. I do love the Birds and the Album version of Neat Little Rows. And Lippy Kids is still spine tingling!

Open Arms video

 

http://www.nme.com/nme-video/elbow/813429430001

I think open Arms is my least fave

It's an odd choice for sure, certainly wouldn't be my first pick as the next single off the album.

I am really into the Birds right now...this album is amazing

Album hasn't shipped in yet, supposed to come during the week sometime. That download button's starting to look mighty friendly...

Come to the dark side, Will. :mellow:

hooray! two Will's posting in the elbow thread! aha

Come to the dark side, Will. :mellow:

 

:bomb: So tempting

 

 

hooray! two Will's posting in the elbow thread! aha

 

:awesome:

Album hasn't shipped in yet, supposed to come during the week sometime. That download button's starting to look mighty friendly...

 

Yeah i'm tempted too atm. Play.com shipped my album on Friday so i was hoping it would be here by now but it isn't. :( Hurry up with my CD postie! :bomb:

Yeah i'm tempted too atm. Play.com shipped my album on Friday so i was hoping it would be here by now but it isn't. :( Hurry up with my CD postie! :bomb:

 

That's why I never pre-order from Play.com, as they hardly ever come on time for release day.

That's why I never pre-order from Play.com, as they hardly ever come on time for release day.

 

Actually, i find play.com are usually very good at getting pre-orders out in time for release day. In fact, i've often had stuff i've pre-ordered from them arrive a few days before the release day. :D

It's an odd choice for sure, certainly wouldn't be my first pick as the next single off the album.

 

Not a single, like Lippy Kids, it's live at Blueprint Studios.

 

Elbow

Build a Rocket Boys!

 

7/10

 

Listening to the Bury music poineers' latest album is very much like watching a rather large rocket go off. The levels of anticipation since previous efforts has increased to a point where only spectacular will do. After a stuttering start, and one or two false flashes of the epic, along comes the boom, the lights and the delivery before the starry night sky shows itself amid a slow but enjoyably twinkly fizzing out.

 

After The Seldom Seen Kid's unexpected success, Guy Garvey resists the temptation to go for radio-friendly melancholy a la Coldplay and instead immerses the listener in a road trip around northern love spots. First we get 'The Birds', a lengthy, slow-building electronic ode to nature before the well-observed 'Lippy Kids' brings us a nostalgic take on youth. "Lippy kids on the corner again/Stealing booze and down long hungry kisses/Do they know those days are golden?" sings Garvey over a soaring backing to produce the second best song on the album.

 

After the meandering 'With Love' - or is that 'Luv'? - lead single 'Neat Little Rows' arrives with its love letter to northern terraced streets and a rather neat piano riff. Almost makes you wish you could echo Garvey's wishes, to "lay my bones in cobbled stones" like an ode to the Hovis ads of old. The wonderfully-titled 'Jesus is a Rochdale Girl' brings us some acoustic respite before the album's middle section - an odd assortment of instrumental shuffles ('High Ideals') and lengthy intros which emerge into bloom ('The Night Will Always Win' and 'The River') - precede the launch.

 

Though it will no doubt be lapped-up by fans and radio bosses as this year's 'One Day Like This', 'Open Arms' aims far higher, shooting towards epic with its Halle choir backing and booming chorus; easily the best thing on the record. Like the aftermath of the excitement, "Dear Friends" brings us a sweet, soft ending which, as the strains of the dying brass fade away, conjures images of said rocket fizzing out to a satisfying end.

 

Not the masterpiece some hoped for, others expected, Build a Rocket Boys! shows a band in full flow, refusing to fall for a flutter and much like Mr Sinatra, doing things their way. The results are, for the most part, worth the wait.

 

http://soundblab.com/content/content/view/id/3418

One day like this shits on that song. What a crap review.

One Day Like This is going to be the song that defines Elbow, they can try and replicate it but anything will come up short

Actually, I feel Elbow is the kind of band that has no song that really defines them.

 

Another review, posted at Elbow Room Only.

http://louderthanwar.com/featured/elbow-build-a-rocket-boys-a-review

It's taken about 6 listens but this albums is starting to come together, very good work!

 

Highlights for me: The River, Neat Little Rows, Dear Friends, The Night Will Always Win

I am still loving The Birds, and I think Lippy Kids is beautiful

'Dear Friends' is probably the best song on there. It has an understated, atmospheric quality that reminds me of Asleep In The Back.

 

 

There's something about this album that doesn't quite hit the spot, but I can't seem to identify what is. I like most of the songs, but I don't love them. Maybe it's because some them are just overlong and repetitive and don't sound all that inspired. And 'Open Arms' seems to be an attempt at a Snow Patrol song. It all sounds sounds nice, but I think their last album had more substance.

 

I'll need to give it more listens before I can rate it alongside their other albums though.