Little Fictions
ELBOW

CD £7.00 Exc VAT: £5.83
  • SKU: 5722720
  • UPC: 0602557227208
  • Release Date: 03 February 2017

Description

Label Review.

2017 album.

Our Overview.

Over twenty years and seven studio albums, elbow have achieved many of the accolades that mark out a successful band. Their cabinet boasts two Ivor Novellos, a Mercury Music Prize, a BRIT award for Best British Band. They have been honoured with an hour long South Bank Show documentary, are one of the most featured modern bands on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs (in fact singer Guy Garvey has himself appeared as a guest on the show) and number a host of prestigious musicians within their fanclub including the likes of Peter Gabriel, Michael Stipe and John Cale, inspirations to the band themselves when they were starting out. elbow remain the only band to secure four consecutive 9/10 album reviews from the NME and their releases have been a permanent presence in the UK charts since the release of debut album, ‘Asleep In The Back’ in 2001.

Their official website further explain “Manchester is a permanent presence in the history of the band and their music. It’s people and their stories permeate Guy Garvey’s lyrics, the band record and produce their music within Salford’s Blueprint Studios, the area’s buildings and landmarks appear across elbow’s songs throughout their albums. This grounding is a key to understanding the band. Never part of a scene or defined by their peers, elbow have consistently followed their own muse, talking of progressive music when it was at its least fashionable, eschewing the easy route to create and maintain a legacy that now stands as one of the most permanent and impressive in contemporary music.

In tandem with their music, the lyrics of Guy Garvey have, from that opening line of debut single ‘Newborn’, been arresting and affecting in equal measure. Guy stated at the very beginning that, ‘for us, both lyrically and musically it has to be sincere’, and this insistence on being true to yourselves has stuck fast throughout.

Guitarist Mark Potter mirrors those sentiments from 1999 in 2016 when he says of new album, ‘Little Fictions’, ‘the songs went where they needed to go, we didn’t get concerned about ideas of ‘cool’ and relied on following our instincts’. As with all elbow albums, ‘Little Fictions’ is an expression of the collective vision of the band and bonded by the love and affection between the four band members that has persisted over two decades."

If Manchester is their geographical foundation, love is their emotional power. As they ready the release of their seventh studio album, ‘Little Fictions’, elbow are assured of their place in the halls of music history. However, such plaudits have never been at the heart of their thinking.

As with their previous three albums, ‘Little Fictions’ was recorded at Blueprint Studios and produced by Craig Potter. At its core, it retains that desire from the band to produce music that is honest, beautiful, thoughtful and challenging. According to its producer, this more than any previous album sees the band ‘letting the music be what it wanted to be, following the simple path sometimes’. And that, in essence, could be said to be an apt description of elbow’s long and increasingly successful career.”

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