ELBOW
Build A Rocket, Boys!
Manchester rock troubadours Elbow seem to have spent the past few years simultaneously making it big and playing it down. When they scooped the 2008 Mercury Prize for their double-platinum fourth album, The Seldom Seen Kid, the resultant mainstream attention and big-scale tours were hardly likely to turn the band into commercial showmen. Frontman Guy Garvey might be a glossy magazine cover star nowadays but Elbow’s follow-up, Build A Rocket Boys!, still feels like a labour of love: the sound of a band who’ve spent long hours zealously tinkering in their DIY workshop (opening with a 8-mins song clearly declares some kinda non-mainstream intentions).
Surprising, and much appreciated.
ARTIST: Elbow
TITLE: Build A Rocket, Boys!
LABEL: Fiction
RELEASE DATE: March 7, 2011
TIME: 51:42 min.
WEB: http://www.elbow.co.uk/
01. The Birds [08:04]
02. Lippy Kids [06:06]
03. With Love [04:12]
04. Neat Little Rows [05:40]
05. Jesus Is A Rochdale Girl [03:18]
06. The Night Will Always Win [04:25]
07. High Ideals [05:39]
08. The River [02:51]
09. Open Arms [04:54]
10. The Birds (reprise) [01:32]
11. Dear Friends [05:01]
get it here.