Elbow - Build A Rocket Boys!

out March 7th

1. Lippy Kids
2. The Birds
3. With Love
4. Neat Little Rows
5. Jesus Is A Rochdale Girl
6. The Night Will Always Win
7. High Ideals
8. The River
9. Open Arms
10. The Birds (Reprise)
11. Dear Friends

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

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

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

leaked

Oh, really?

WANT

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

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.

the album is nice. they have made better albums though

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Hopefully I get to listen to this one tonight!

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.

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.