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Seldom Seen Kid

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Release date: 17-3-2008
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Catalogue Number: 1764098
Label: POLYDOR

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Elbow -

Seldom Seen Kid

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5 out of 5

Craig See all by me Location: NOTTINGHAM

proper good

29 September, 2008

this album is like proper dead good n that.

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5 out of 5

George See all by me Location: NEWTON AYCLIFFE

Fantastic

28 September, 2008

I am really not surprised this album won the mercury prize.

Amazing.

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Seldom Seen Kid

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5 out of 5

Simon See all by me Location: Burnley

Best Album Yet

29 May, 2008

Elbow seem to grow in confidence with each release. Some fans may see this as a move towards Arena music, but actually the bands ethics have not changed since their first release, what has changed is the confidence of the band to create anthemic tunes such as One Day Like This, and with the video will no doubt do the rounds on MTV and enhance the band no end.

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Mar 2008

Mercury Music Prize Winners 2008 Their fourth studio album, ‘The Seldom Seen Kid’ is a welcome return from Elbow, driven by a thunderous riff that reminds listeners of Elbow’s love of the heavy as well as the delicate. Produced by keyboard player, Craig Potter, the album is the follow up to 2005’s universally acclaimed ‘Leaders Of The Free World’. The lyrical core of ‘The Seldom Seen Kid’ sees Guy Garvey address the key questions of life. Over the 11 tracks the big themes of love and loss become the central focus of an album that sees Elbow, a band universally recognised for their musical ability and innovation, stretch their sonic template further than ever before.

Epic post-rock tinged emotional indie stalwarts Elbow release their fourth album 'The Seldom Seen Kid', another staunch and anthemic collection of songs. The tense and emotional sound of previous records remains, but with a distinctly more commercial riff-based template, particularly on lead single 'Grounds For Divorce'. The band produced the record themselves, as with previous records, lending it a homespun quality that would be out of synch with any external influence. Revered by their peers as a reliably independent act, Elbow have created a subtly innovative extension of their sound and scope with 'The Seldom Seen Kid'.

Formed in Manchester, U.K., in the late 1990s, this five-piece rock outfit hit big with their debut album, ASLEEP AT THE BACK. Combining socially relevant lyrics concerning the contemporary British experience with complex, passionate music, they drew comparisons with both classic rock acts of previous decades--including Pink Floyd and Talk Talk--and more contemporary bands like Radiohead, while pursuing a more mainstream path than experimentally inclined millennial bands like Sigur Ros and Godspeed You Black Emperor.