Elbow : The Seldom Seen Kid
 

i still haven't really gotten past 'New Born'. Or that song about not mixing your drinks, and how it will kill you someday. Elbow sound like a really nice melodic yawn, in a good way. I think they've played every ****ing festival I've ever been to aswell

I have heard a couple of tracks from previous releases and I was indifferent to them but I needed to get this album for someone, so I thought I would listen to it.

This album completely bewilders me. Opener Starlings is atmospheric, broody and replete with a hypnotic keyboard/ brass rhythmn. Next comes The Bones Of You and my expectation levels drop. This could easily be Coldplay, Embrace or any other average guitar pop band peddling MOR indifference. Then comes along Grounds For Divorce and while not exactly original it's faux blues melody is instantly likeable and The Loneliness Of A Tower Crane Driver is a band that seems so desperately trying to climb out of the banal musical landscape where all emotional British guitar music sounds the same.

There are some great musical parts on here but the band seem desperately stuck in the past.

It's a really good album and the sound is not all over the place in the least. All the songs fit together somehow, and with songs like The Fix, Elbow show that they are offering than your average run-of-the-mill British guitar do.

I've been gettin down to this in the past week. 'Grounds For Divorce' is very attractive.

I went to see Elbow a couple of months ago and just wish that I had been familiar with Seldom Seen Kid before I saw them! They did a memorable performance of A Day Like this which made me rush out and buy it. I tend to skip quite a lot of the tracks on the previous albums but this one is superb. I will be going to see them again in October. Can't wait!

This is the album that brought Elbow to my attention.
I backtracked and now have all their albums (including this one).
The best album for me is 'Asleep In The Back' though.

I found this one a bit mediocre although the song 'One Day Like This' is gorgeous.

Thats the video I was going to post. I think that performance is completely immaculate, that and the one they did with the BBC Concert Orchestra.

I cant get that song out of my head. I have listened to it a sickening amount of times today.

EDIT: Thats not actually the one I was going to post, its just from the same programme. My bad. This is it.

I love this band, although one of my favorite tracks from them isn't on this excellent album. It's actually from "Asleep In The Back," track title - "Red"