Red Mosquito • View topic - Elbow - Build A Rocket Boys! (out March 7th, 2011)

solace · **Posted:** Wed Dec 22, 2010 3:03 pm

Elbow - Build A Rocket Boys!

out March 7th

Lippy Kids
The Birds
With Love
Neat Little Rows
Jesus Is A Rochdale Girl
The Night Will Always Win
High Ideals
The River
Open Arms
The Birds (Reprise)
Dear Friends

Harmless · **Joined:** Thu Aug 06, 2009 2:53 pm **Posts:** 11395

If this is anywhere near as good as The Seldom Seen Kid, I'm buying it.

SmilinSkullRing · **Posted:** Mon Dec 27, 2010 4:54 am

I meant to post about this days ago. Very excited!!!

brainofpea · **Posted:** Sun Jan 16, 2011 12:15 am

Can....not....wait.....

SmilinSkullRing · **Posted:** Sun Jan 16, 2011 12:37 am

brainofpea wrote:

Can....not....wait.....

psychobain · **Posted:** Thu Mar 03, 2011 2:00 am

leaked

SmilinSkullRing · **Posted:** Thu Mar 03, 2011 4:19 am

Oh, really?

WANT

psychobain · **Posted:** Fri Mar 04, 2011 1:38 am

jesus is a rochdale girl and the night will always win are :luv:

Harmless · **Joined:** Thu Aug 06, 2009 2:53 pm **Posts:** 11395

Saw a spot about this on TV the other day. Need it, sounded absolutely beautiful. The Seldom Seen Kid was a really important album to me.

Kommienezuspadt · **Posted:** Mon Mar 07, 2011 8:39 am

the album is nice. they have made better albums though

Harmless · **Joined:** Thu Aug 06, 2009 2:53 pm **Posts:** 11395

Only on track one so far, but this is gonna be a fine album.

Harmless · **Joined:** Thu Aug 06, 2009 2:53 pm **Posts:** 11395

Yep. I think one test of a great album is whether a band can make one even when there's nothing to prove. They've done it.

PotatoJunkie · **Posted:** Mon Mar 07, 2011 1:34 pm

right know i'm liking "Ticker Tape" more than any song on the album

solace · **Posted:** Mon Mar 07, 2011 4:05 pm

Harmless wrote:

Only on track one so far, but this is gonna be a fine album.

indeed.

i like it, but it's gonna have to grow on me before i can say i fully love it.

Harmless · **Joined:** Thu Aug 06, 2009 2:53 pm **Posts:** 11395

solace wrote:

Harmless wrote:

Only on track one so far, but this is gonna be a fine album.

indeed.

i like it, but it's gonna have to grow on me before i can say i fully love it.

Does it sound weird to say that even though it hasn't all hit me yet, I know that all the ingredients are there so that it will?

solace · **Posted:** Mon Mar 07, 2011 4:17 pm

hard to say... with Seldom Seen Kid it was so gorgeous that I figured it was just a matter of if, not when, i loved it.

this one isn't hitting me quite that hard.

i'd put it 3rd or 4th in their catalog at the moment.

Harmless · **Joined:** Thu Aug 06, 2009 2:53 pm **Posts:** 11395

This album is as good the last, but completely different. It doesn't make as many big statements as TSSK did. It's understated and subtle in a way Radiohead hoped their album would be. Elbow does it with style. There's always so much depth and space in their music, always so much to take in. The lyrics here are quite moving, there's a real humanity and warmth evoked which is really rare in music these days. It doesn't scream 'like me' and is completely honest.

SmilinSkullRing · **Posted:** Mon Mar 07, 2011 5:34 pm

Hopefully I get to listen to this one tonight!

Harmless · **Joined:** Thu Aug 06, 2009 2:53 pm **Posts:** 11395

I'm loving the fuck out of this album. The instrumental/bridge leading into the outro of 'Neat Little Rows' gives me goosebumps. Well, lots of this gives me goosebumps. The lyrics of 'Open Arms' are the best lyrics I've heard for a long time.

Harmless · **Joined:** Thu Aug 06, 2009 2:53 pm **Posts:** 11395

And the way the whole of 'Open Arms' is like a giant massive pre-chorus, and the drum fill builds and builds and builds the whole way through, stretches like an elastic band but NEVER SNAPS... NEVER LETS GO... because of it DID let go, it'd be a Coldplay song. That's the genius of this song. That's the genius of this album, actually. Professional and brilliant restraint. If this post looks like a drunk rambling it's because this album is like a wonderful, brilliant, giant drink.

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