Elbow!!!

[No spoken words]

New York Morning is glorious.

My favorite thus far, love it.

 

[Danny Boy]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...R&pf_rd_t=301&pf_rd_p=473591227&pf_rd_i=elbow

Free download of an acoustic version of This Blue World.

It's the UK Amazon; no idea if it's available all over or what. I'll try when I get home. I do have an account on the site.

Looks like you need a credit card with a UK address to download free tracks.

Exploring other avenues...

 

[Popmartijn]

I think those acoustic tracks are also available on Spotify.

 

[corianderstem]

Looks like you need a credit card with a UK address to download free tracks.

Exploring other avenues...

Curses!

I don't see them on Spotify here.

 

[No spoken words]

I like it more with each listen. Digging Colour Fields a lot…..

Between this, the new St. Vincent and the new Beck, been a nice stretch of new music.

 

[corianderstem]

Not a huge fan of Real Life (Angel) or Colour Fields. Honey Sun and and the last track are okay, and everything else I'm loving.

 

[iron yuppie]

Sorry if this has already been answered, but is the new one streaming anywhere?

 

[Pop Artist]

Rats, I have Google Play All Access and have more than enough credits to buy it there for free, but the album hasn't shown up yet. Getting harder to hold out, I may have to cave and get this off Amazon...

 

[corianderstem]

Just got notification that my actual album has shipped from Universal UK. I'm impressed. Wasn't really sure when it would be going out to ship to the US.

Drove my boss and myself to a meeting today, and we listened to the live Elbow double album ... she liked it! I recommended she download Leaders of the Free World and The Seldom Seen Kid.

 

[Diemen]

we listened to the live Elbow double album

I need to get that. Is it only available from Amazon UK?

 

[corianderstem]

Yeah, looks like it's just import only on the US Amazon. They have used copies for about $25, which isn't bad for 2 CDs and 1 DVD.

Really glad I ordered it with the new album pre-order. Even though it was in pounds sterling, it ended up being a bargain not having to pay for the Amazon import price!

 

[u2popmofo]

I got the US-release price of $10.00.

 

[Popmartijn]

I just won tickets to see Elbow play an intimate gig (for Elbow in Europe that is) at the Paradiso in two weeks!!! So happy to see them on their own (their only other confirmed appearance is at a festival in June). And now I don't have to fight thousands of others when tickets go on sale tomorrow.

YEAH!!!

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

But there isn't words yet for the comfort I get
From the gentle lunette at the top of the nape of the neck that I wake to

And where are the words for the leap in my chest
When mischief appears either side of the scar on your nose
Made by a rose thorn, so you claim
By a rose thorn

 

[corianderstem]

I just won tickets to see Elbow play an intimate gig (for Elbow in Europe that is) at the Paradiso in two weeks!!! So happy to see them on their own (their only other confirmed appearance is at a festival in June). And now I don't have to fight thousands of others when tickets go on sale tomorrow.

Nice!

The lyrics on the album make me sad, especially knowing (thanks to an article in the Independent) that Garvey split from his long-time partner.

I love the heart-on-sleeve romance of the lyrics on Seldom Seen Kid. Now here he is all sad and stuff.

I do like the songs about the pub characters (Charge, and My Sad Captains). That also makes me think about Seldom Seen Kid, how their friend who had died (the "seldom seen kid" in question) apparently had drinking problems (see Some Riot). Interesting to see those themes carry through onto this album.

 

[last unicorn]

Oh I totally forgot this was coming out

Amazon sent me an e-mail last night that they shipped the album which I ordered some weeks ago. Can't wait to have it and hear it in its full glory.

Is Elbow touring Europe this year? I have only seen UK dates so far and some festival appearances.

 

[corianderstem]

Yeah, they have some European dates for the summer:

elbow

 

[corianderstem]

Elbow on The Take Off And Landing Of Everything | News, Tours & Music Videos - XFM

I'm really glad I listened to this. Hearing them talk about the songs made me like some of them more, particularly Real Life (Angel), and knowing what This Blue World is about makes me love it more.

 

[last unicorn]

Elbow on The Take Off And Landing Of Everything | News, Tours & Music Videos - XFM

I'm really glad I listened to this. Hearing them talk about the songs made me like some of them more, particularly Real Life (Angel), and knowing what This Blue World is about makes me love it more.

That's great Listening now.

The tour seems to be mostly festival dates outside of UK. A bit of bad timing for me, sadly. But maybe there will be some more dates announced later.

 

[u2popmofo]

Well I feel like a dumbass, I thought the Elbow album being available early was an iTunes only deal. I just looked through the email my Amazon account is linked to, and I could have downloaded the Autorip from Amazon since Tuesday as well...

Curses.

 

[Danny Boy]

...and I have had a false sense of superiority and entitlement all week.

 

[u2popmofo]

...and I have had a false sense of superiority and entitlement all week.

You are the reason U2 hate their fans.

 

[Vlad n U 2]

After first listen I reckon it can grow to be my second favourite album of theirs.

 

[Diemen]

I'm appreciating the whole album a lot more after reading through the lyrics. Really love Garvey's ability to find beauty in the ordinary.

 

[No spoken words]

I have had the title track stuck in my head for 24 hours or so now.

 

[corianderstem]

Is it Memorial Day weekend yet?

 

[No spoken words]

I hope not, cos I'm seeing them on 5/16 in NEW YORK CITY WHERE I WILL SOON BE LIVING AGAIN.

 

[purpleblackeye]

i just have to say what a fantastic lyricist Guy Garvey is

new album is a slow burner in the best sense and beautiful

 

[Diemen]

new album is a slow burner in the best sense and beautiful

This. I was too quick to judge in my first impressions. After a closer reading of the lyrics, and listening to a couple interviews, this album has grown on me immensely. There's an attention to beauty in the details, both musically and lyrically, that's seems to get better with each listen.

It may have just bumped Asleep in the Back out of 3rd on my list of favorite elbow albums.

 

[iron yuppie]

After one listen, it is an extremely consistent affair. There were a few tracks on it that really soared, though I was doing something else at the time and so don't know the names. "Slow-burner" seems an apt description.