 Don Yates - 03/09/2011 This British band’s fifth full-length follows up their most popular album (2008’s The Seldom Seen Kid) with a slow-burning set of atmospheric prog-pop...
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Laura Davies - 03/08/2011  How does a band cope with being thrown into the very public eye after the stratospheric success of a Mercury Prize winning record Well if you’re Spee...
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| Mick Middles - 03/08/2011 The Seldom Seen Kid cracked into a welcoming mainstream and, frankly, only a hardened cynic and envious early convert could begrudge such success… suc...
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Bowlegs - 03/08/2011  When Bowlegs heard the lead single, ‘Neat Little Rows’, from Elbow’s fourth record, it felt like another step towards the stadiums, the waving hands a...
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Ian Gittins - 03/07/2011  It's to their credit that fame and success have not changed Lancashire's masters of majestic melancholy, who continue to weave reflective tales of dou...
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| cloudspeakers - 03/07/2011 After two decades of making music to mass indifference, as of 2011 Elbow find themselves in a unique position. Their fifth album will be both their hi...
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| ClashMusic - 03/07/2011 Safe in the knowledge that an audience awaits, Elbow’s fifth album finds the band doing exactly as they please. Combining the expanses of their debut,...
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| Michael Wheeler - 03/07/2011 In the introduction to his 2007 book, Teenage: The Creation Of Youth 1875-1945, Jon Savage explains the impact that discovering the work of American p...
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| Simon Price - 03/06/2011 Build A Rocket Boys! – an expression of optimism and rising to challenges – is well named in a second sense too: the band who recorded it are voyaging...
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| Kitty Empire - 03/06/2011 Elbow's victory at the 2008 Mercury prize was a triumph for a kind of soppy manfulness. It was a bearded, bear-like defence of staunch emotion and the...
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| Fraser McAlpine - 03/04/2011 Everyone relax; this is not the album where sudden acclaim goes to Guy Garvey’s head. There are no songs about touring, pressure, intrusive journalist...
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| Andy Gill - 03/04/2011 In the three years since The Seldom Seen Kid hoisted the band into the first rank of arena-rock dependables, Elbow have had plenty of time to think. I...
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| John Murphy - 03/03/2011 Para.Para....
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| Alexis Petridis - 03/03/2011 The shelves of your local newsagent currently offer at least one unlikely sight. A chubby, bearded man in a suit stares out from the cover of Britain'...
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| Doug Brod - 03/02/2011 Call it dream pomp. On the fifth studio album from these Manchester-based Mercury Prize winners, drama king Guy Garvey once again lends his soothing, ...
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