Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid (March 2008)

The snippet sounds real good. I heart Elbow.

very excited

considering they have yet to release a bad album

i had already nominated them among the Most consistent discographies? before Stan even started this thread. very excited, of course. hope they've taken their music in a weirder, wilder direction.

love their first album but they've been a case of diminishing returns for me, so i hope this record does something a little different

Dec 17, 2007

Elbow have exclusively told NME.COM that their fourth album will be called 'The Seldom Seen Kid'.

duh

What I really like about it is that I know 100% that I don't love it as much as I will. Immediacy isn't an Elbow strong point - it took me about six months to really get into Asleep... - but the songs sort of sneak up on you gradually over a period of time.

^^^yes. At first I thought Asleep was the worst one. That album especially worms its way in and before you know it you have a new favourite album of 2001 (well, not really, but it's definitely top 5).

Also, my very first hearing of "Leaders of The Free World" was an XFM expose, a radio run-through. I hated it. God, what a subtle band, though. A few listens later and I was sold.

sorry bro, i was fucking with y'all.

i was just thinking, 'nrq doesn't normally dig this shit'...

your fucking with is however OTM. i'm not sure how this has come about. or what it should be called.

i was copying and pasting something young alex macpherson said,.

might have known. he wasn't always wrong, y'know! just, on the whole politics and guitars front he was a trifle imbalanced. oh, and that Klaxons review (/guardian career).

this is great news! they were on V2 so i was wondering if they would continue. love all three albums with some great b-sides, some of the best in the 2000's.

I love Elbow, and have high hopes for this.

elbow, arse more like.

http://www.myspace.com/elbowmusic

"Grounds for Divorce" is the first single, March 10th. (it's on their myspace)

Sounds immaculate.

Subtle, too - again. Yay!

Dedicated LP site: http://www.theseldomseenkid.com/

Video for first single: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL4mywCOJXA

I only know Marc Ribot from his work on Tom Waits' Rain Dogs, so this is probably a stupid question, but is that him doing the guitar solo on Audience With The Pope about three minutes in?

I dunno; I'm covering this for Drowned In Sound and have pointed ut that it sounds like Rain Dogs-era Waits - is Ribot credited anywhere?

Don't think so, it probably isn't him - we'd have heard about it, like that duet thing.

Hold on, I googled ribot elbow seldom seen kid and it appears that it may be him after all

False alarm. Was on a page with a review of the new black keys album. (Slow cell phone connection bt the moment, sorry for the confusion)

Hahaha, I read that exact page a few hours ago...

Guy also revealed, exclusively to 6 Music, that the band are planning a b-sides album:

"Which in itself we are classing as a fifth album because we are so proud of the material on there. With the exception of one song that shall remain nameless of the 65 songs that we have released so far, we are very proud of them all. "

"The b-sides album Dead In the Boot will come out later."

The first single from The Seldom Seen Kid will be "Grounds For Divorce."

Yeah, they've been promising a B-sides compilation for a while. Nice that it has a title now.

"We all love Columbo"...

U.S. release date and tour announced (from their E-mail newsletter):

Elbow's new album 'The Seldom Seen Kid' gets its US release on Tuesday April 22nd.

The album will be preceded by the single 'One Day Like This' on Tuesday March 18th and the band will head Stateside during the spring to play some long-awaited shows for their US and Canadian fans.

Here's a full rundown of all the North American dates...

April
26 - Webster Hall, New York, NY ( Buy Tickets - On sale now)
27 - Sixth & I Historical Synagogue, Washington, DC (More Info - On sale now)
29 - Park West, Chicago, IL (Buy Tickets - On sale now)
30 - Fine Line Music Cafe, Minneapolis, MN (Buy Tickets - On sale now)

May
2 - Bluebird Theatre, Denver, CO (Buy Tickets - On sale 7th Mar)
3 - The Depot, Salt Lake City, UT (Buy Tickets - On sale 8th Mar)
5 - Showbox at the Market, Seattle, WA (Buy Tickets - On sale 8th Mar)
6 - St Andrew's Wesley Church, Vancouver, Canada (Buy Tickets - On sale 7th Mar)
8 - Bimbo's 365 club, San Francisco, CA (More Info - On sale now)
9 - Avalon, Los Angeles, CA (Buy Tickets - On sale now)

ugh "One Day Like This" is fucking awful

Agreed. Disappointed that they seem to think that's the song that will break this album in America.

YEAH, i need to see them again. the one time i saw them they were great and the Avalon is a great place to see a band.

I was just going to check out the tourdates on their site and their myspace and I thoughtlessly typed this in my address bar: http://www.elbowmusic.com/

!?

'One Day Like This' sounds like Mike & The Mechanics, y/n?

really odd choice for a single, even if they chop it down to 3 mins.

I'll hear the lead U.S. single soon...see if Rutherford seeps through...

http://drownedinsound.com/release/view/12949

Great review Nick.

I loved their performance on Jonathan Ross last week.

Disappointed that they seem to think that's the song that will break this album in America.

If they haven't "broken" by now, I doubt they'll find themselves in Coldplay's or Franz Ferdinand's sold-out-bigger-venue shoes anytime soon (not that they aren't, in my opinion, more deserving than either). Instead I think it's the (viral?) song they'll use to remind their limited fanbase in America that they're still together...and move on from there.

They certainly aren't the first band to employ a teaser/movie trailer mentality with a lead single. (Besides, AmReeKans do like their sing-along anthems, non?)

'One Day Like This' sounds like Mike & The Mechanics, y/n?

Not to my ears.

It sounds like Embrace done right to me.

(Ha! Touché on zee Coldplay reference Nick!)

Nice review! The start is reassuringly familiar :-)

Now that I've read past the review and all the way into the comments ("thats all a bit hagiographic" - maybe, but again, deserved; much more than their supposed contemporaries),

Well said, Nick!

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edit: Now that I've read past the review and... shoulda been...Now that I've read past the review's Coldplay reference and...)

Don't get me wrong, I love the album, "One Day Like This" is just not one of those things I turn to Elbow for.

"One Day Like This" strikes me as this LP's "Grace Under Pressure"

Except that "Grace Under Pressure" wasn't a complete puddle of sop, and had a brilliant guitar line. "One Day Like This" takes its 6 minutes to drive the album's considerable sonic charms into the ground.

Well exactly. Elbow fans need to be told "see those twatriots up on Henmang Hill? That's you in ten years' time, that is."

re: Mercury, right band, completely wrong album. This is their weakest. It grew on me a little (as said above) but I never now feel compelled to listen to it.

...That's you in ten years' time, that is.

'cept Elbow's been around for nearly 20, tosser.

WHEN INDIES ATTACK: A CHANNEL 5 SPECIAL

Well, Noodle Vague, it's SO MUCH cooler to put something down when you got fuck all to say. But I'm all for you and your "I don't actually have a favorite band, you see, I'm a 'critic'" chums to keep the loose stool dripping from out your keyboards.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/raheem.gif

Aye, see you, why should ah spend ten poond of ma children's inheritance on yir shitty recird aye? And for that reason, ah'm oot.

I don't actually have a favorite band, I'm white btw.

This is hardly up to the Carter USM/Corrs standard of aggrieved fan lurkers.

Wait til the Henmang fans google this shit.

I'm white btw

Congratulations.

Define lurkers. By that do you mean, I have a day job and don't spend every minute of my life on ILM? Then yeah, that's me.

Nailed it.

Who knew Guy Garvey had a day job?

Who knew Noodle Vague wasn't living in his mother's basement?

Does she still pay for your Internet access?

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So witty, how is that you don't have a day job?

Or is mum not yet done cooking your dinner?

Angry, angry young man.

"young"

Sorry, I just thought the title of this thread wasn't "watch Noodle and Marcello make out." Wrong room. My bad.

Guid day, aam Bobby Gillespie ay motoon krautrock pioneers Primal Scream an' aam bonnie radge at thes marcello carlin' dude tay.

Yir no Boaby yir a fafty-yir-auld man reminiscin' oan whit he had oh hang on a wee minute

How did I miss this upthread: you guys don't like Elbow.

We get it.

Got anything else?

elbowhurt

It's very poor, not even worth a "product of a discourse" zing.

Q: Got anything else?

A: No, sadly our instruments came equipped with but one note and just keep playin' it and playin' it and playin' it and playin' it and playin' it and playin' it and playin' it and playin' it and playin' it and see, that's how we amuse ourselves.

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Welcome. Tonight Marcello Carlin and Noodle Vague will debate the merits of Elbow's latest album, the Mercury Prize-winning, The Seldom Seen Kid.

Our debate will be moderated by Just got offed.

Who knew DJ Martian had a sock-puppet?

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Awww, where'd you guys go...? You were just starting to sound sentient.

Certainly didn't mean to scare you off by matching your idiocy line for line...

Come back, wontcha?

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some of us have desk jobs that allow us to post endlessly to ilx while still getting paid.

Admittedly I am not one of these people.

some of us have desk jobs that allow us to post endlessly to ilx while still getting paid.

I miss that job/those jobs sometimes.

some of us have desk jobs that allow us to post intermittently to ilx while still getting played

This is about the third time in 17 years there's been a deserved winner. I thought we were going to see a re-run of the Richard Hawley debacle a couple of years back, and for the prize ending up going to the Banksy-What's-On-Your-iPod?, edgy-as-fuck, well-weapon Burial album, or some other twot.

well-weapon

Oh no you didn't

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Life's too short for "real guitar."

This is all a bit pathetic, isn't it?

I said that when the album came out but would anyone listen? Nope!

As tired as Geir at this stage in proceedings.

Marcello loves them really. He just hasn't realised it yet.

Yeah, people were saying all this (and to me) about Big Country 25 years ago.

I was right then and I'm right now. You wait and see.

Elbow Live At Abbey Road
The BBC have set up an Elbow Abbey Road mini-site at www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/event/elbow

Visit the site now to watch a video of the stunning Abbey Road concert in all its full length glory.

There's also a gallery of pictures capturing the magic of the evening and a video of 'Grounds For Divorce' for you to embed on your website, myspace or facebook profiles. You can watch this video below.

Don't forget - BBC viewers can still press the "Red" button on any BBC channel and enjoy the whole concert in the comfort of their own living rooms.

The full boxset of the performance is available to pre-order now and includes a CD of the show in a card wallet, a DVD of the action, 4 photo postcards and a 16 page booklet.

Click here to place your order now.

(jesus, what the hell happened to this thread?)

that looks really cool, thanks for the info Stan.

Live @ Studio Brussel's Club 96 (in front of about 150 people - "Club 69" = 69 people who have won a duo ticket ) two days ago: http://stubru.be/node/93542?page=1

("Herbeluister" = listen)

(or just get this download link )

Club 96 <- duh @ my typing. It's Club 69, obv.