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15 years, 6 months ago at Oct 15 12:21
Elbowโs new album, their fourth to date, The Seldom Seen Kid. The great thing about Elbow is that you know that on the first listen, all the tracks will sound the same. Itโs only as you play the album over and over, that the swarms of unrelated sounds gradually coalesce into recognizable melodies, vocals, etc. The lyrics are personal, meaningful and compact. Phrases are only repeated to build ... read more
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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,
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Manufacturer: Geffen Records
Release date: 22 April 2008
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0602517642522 UPC: 602517642522
Release date: 22 April 2008
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0602517642522 UPC: 602517642522
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