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Seldom Seen Kid

ElbowAudio CD
4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (103 customer reviews)

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Elbow return with their new album, The Seldom Seen Kid. Recorded by the band at their own facility within Salford's Blueprint Studios and produced by keyboard player, Craig Potter, The Seldom Seen Kid is the follow up to 2005's universally acclaimed Leaders Of The Free World and first for Fiction/Geffen Records.

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Product Details

  • Audio CD (April 22, 2008)
  • Original Release Date: 2008
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Geffen Records
  • ASIN: B0015I2P0Y
  • In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (103 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #21,018 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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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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Acclaimed for their innovative sound and candid, evocative lyrics, Elbow has received vast critical acclaim and been endorsed by major artists Blur, R.E.M. and U2. Elbow return with a new album, "The Seldom Seen Kid", their follow up to 2005's universally acclaimed Leaders Of The Free World and first for Fiction/Geffen Records. In support of the new set Elbow will be coming stateside kicking things off with a show in New York City April 26, 2008 at Webster Hall.

"New Elbow is sublime!!" - SUPERNOVA

"Their latest effort deserves to trigger a large-scale love affair. Elbow are at the top of their game" - UNCUT MAGAZINE

"Every now and then a great band like Elbow comes along. I am a big fan so its no surprise that I totally love the first song to surface from their upcoming album, The Seldom Seen Kid" - EACH NOTE SECURE


 

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29 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Make room for this, April 22, 2008
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William Merrill "eclecticist" (San Antonio, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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In my view, Elbow has been not received the attention they've deserved, neglected and passed by as the spotlight has shown instead on similarly innovative countrymen Radiohead and Coldplay. Perhaps their excellent new CD will change that. The Seldom Seen Kid moves from songs filled with Pink Floydian grandeur (ex., "the Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver"), to Beatlesque sing-alongs ("One Day Like This") and a lot of quality material along the way. The arrangements are stunning, including an extremely effective use of keyboards and synths. There is an interesting variety of musical moods including the dark carnival ride of "The Fix," a relatively straight-ahead blues rocker (the mighty "Grounds for Divorce") and a couple of gloomy widescreen ballads. This new Elbow recording is so good it's made me want to go back and reassess their previous works. It's one of the better things I've heard so far in '08.
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27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning, absolutely mesmerising album, March 19, 2008
This review is from: The Seldom Seen Kid (Audio CD)
Elbow, in my honest opinion, are one of the world's most highly underrated bands.
This album deserves listen after listen after listen.
Each time I keep finding more and more reasons to think if this album as one of the best albums for years, and a sure contender for an album of the year.
Stand out tracks.
Bones of You. Storming track with an amazingly clever mix of hard bass line and single note acoustic strumming. Simply amazing.
Mirrorball. Simply put, this has to be one of the best tracks on an album ever.
The kick drum beat and piano in this track send shivers down my spine. EVERY. TIME. I. HEAR. IT.
Weather to Fly. Gorgeous. Pure class.
Elbow have just pulled out all the stops on this album. It is climbing very quickly to one of my all time classics.
And above all, I just cannot write a review without mentioning Guy Garvey's lyrical genius.
If I gush on about his way with words, I'll embarass myself. He has a gift. He is one of modern rock's geniuses.
I'll leave it at that.



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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars go fourth, young band, April 9, 2008
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Joseph Geni (Evanston, Illinois United States) - See all my reviews
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Elbow, one of my favorite active bands, have never made a truly perfect album, and this isn't one either. It doesn't need to be. Destined as with its predecessors to get many and many a spin in my player, Elbow's fourth release continues to demonstrate why they are far ahead of the field. The murky, melancholy Mancunian brit-rockers give us another round of pint-aided romantic reflections on the everyday, with the customary layers of thick guitars, pianos, and cavernous snares and kicks.

In each previous album, Elbow's thrown something new into their trademark sound. This time, it's a bit of a showman's edge, most notable in the the zany track The Fix (which with Richard Hawley's co-vocals sounds like a preposterous musical number from a Tim Burton flick), and also on One Day Like This (the string melody of which recalls My Fair Lady). There is a greater emphasis on the string section, starting with the dramatic stabs in the otherwise breezing opening number Starlings. As always, there's a classic Elbow stomp track (the amusing Grounds for Divorce takes its place alongside kindred spirits Fallen Angel and Forget Myself). There's the late-album lull (the piano-dominated Some Riot). There's the would-be anthem (One Day Like This tries but doesn't have the stunning emotional power of the immaculate Grace Under Pressure from Cast Of Thousands). There's the classic piano-driven ballad (Mirrorball, a gorgeous track, one of their best).

Then of course there's Guy Garvey's top-notch lyricism, again on display here. If Asleep in the Back's lyrics were dominated by urban rat race discontent, Cast of Thousands' by gossip, and Leaders of the Free World by love and heartbreak, this record has a far more domestic feel, which seems natural as the band ages. Songs about fatherhood, divorce, old friends, and the like abound. Garvey still has the unique ability to be brilliant about the ordinary. "We took the town to town last night, we kissed like we invented it," he sings on Mirrorball.

For me, this outing doesn't quite carry the natural ease of fit that their debut did, so I'll call it their second or third best record, if I've got to rank 'em. Still, by the time we reach the outro -- the gentle and moving Friends of Ours, a track similar to Great Expectations from their last record -- The Seldom Seen Kid has taken its place as one of the band's highlights. When these guys come up with a best of -- and here's one fan hoping there will be several more records of this caliber before it comes to that -- the top numbers from this will fit in right alongside all the rest.
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