Elbow
Build A Rocket Boys!

This British band’s fifth full-length follows up their most popular album (2008’s The Seldom Seen Kid) with a slow-burning set of atmospheric prog-pop...

How does a band cope with being thrown into the very public eye after the stratospheric success of a Mercury Prize winning record Well if you’re Spee...

The Seldom Seen Kid cracked into a welcoming mainstream and, frankly, only a hardened cynic and envious early convert could begrudge such success… suc...

When Bowlegs heard the lead single, ‘Neat Little Rows’, from Elbow’s fourth record, it felt like another step towards the stadiums, the waving hands a...

It's to their credit that fame and success have not changed Lancashire's masters of majestic melancholy, who continue to weave reflective tales of dou...

After two decades of making music to mass indifference, as of 2011 Elbow find themselves in a unique position. Their fifth album will be both their hi...

Safe in the knowledge that an audience awaits, Elbow’s fifth album finds the band doing exactly as they please. Combining the expanses of their debut,...

In the introduction to his 2007 book, Teenage: The Creation Of Youth 1875-1945, Jon Savage explains the impact that discovering the work of American p...

Build A Rocket Boys! – an expression of optimism and rising to challenges – is well named in a second sense too: the band who recorded it are voyaging...

Elbow's victory at the 2008 Mercury prize was a triumph for a kind of soppy manfulness. It was a bearded, bear-like defence of staunch emotion and the...