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The Seldom Seen Kid | 
 enlarge | Artist: Elbow
Label: Polydor Group
Category: Music
List Price: £11.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  53 reviews
Sales Rank: 22
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 56
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 602517640986
EAN: 0602517640986
ASIN: B0013F2M52
Release Date: March 17, 2008
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| Tracks:
| » | Starlings | | » | The Bones Of You | | » | Mirrorball | | » | Grounds For Divorce | | » | An Audience With The Pope | | » | Weather To Fly | | » | The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver | | » | The Fix - Elbow, Richard Hawley | | » | Some Riot | | » | One Day Like This | | » | Friend Of Ours | | » | We're Away |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
There are few things in life quite so liberating as the opening track on an Elbow album--they're like airlocks between the plainness of the outside world and the elaborate melancholic heave-ho that you are likely about to submerge yourself in. Following predecessors "Any Day Now", "Ribcage" and "Station Approach", "Starlings" opens their fourth album The Seldom Seen Kid rising from a bed of tumbling electronic subtlety like a depressed Atari game loading up, adding bare touches of piano, glimpses of ambient guitar, out of body background vocals, an understated pulse and a wisp of strings, before--EXCELSIS!--a fanfare avalanche of horns crashes the gate and elevates things to gasping palatial heights, before Guy Garvey's inimitable gravel tone and wrenchingly poetic reinterpretations of the everyday announce their arrival proper. It's astonishing, by far the most progressive moment on the album and if anything it sets the bar too high. But even when the pace dips, and songs like "Mirrorball" and "Weather to Fly" don't distinguish themselves quite enough, their textural peerlessness remains. This is a beautiful sounding record. Their collaboration with Richard Hawley may be more of a curiosity than a thing of beauty, but the highs, the riffing cross-stitch of "Ground for Divorce", the desolate grandeur of "The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver" and the enlightened string-laden anthem "On a Day Like This" (like their own Sound of Music--only substitute the Alpine peaks for a Manchester high-rise) number amongst the best of their career. --James Berry
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| Customer Reviews: Read 48 more reviews...
 Please don't go May 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If its true this is the last album, what a way to go. Gorgeous, uplifting, sublime.
Been a fan since Asleep, saw them live for this albums tour and knocked me out.
Please don't leave us, each album just get better and better. A true masterpiece.
ulp... May 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
...can't seem to get that lump out of my throat. Or stop listening to Weather to Fly... could be a connection there.
My god I love this.
Seen them live four times now and the last time a few weeks ago was the best. They've been together for 18 years so it wouldn't be surprising if they stop making albums, but I really hope they don't - each one just gets better.
This is my favourite album by my favourite band. So there.
Let this album be your friend May 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm not sorry at all that these reviews begin to sound alike: if there was any hype about this band it would be fully deserved. But there is no hype; just the sound of a group of friends comfortable in their sound, displaying a dry wit, a bruised heart and an all enveloping tenderness that ill fits with a Manc guitar band. There's something for everyone in the deft production and range of styles on show - take this album into your family and cuddle up to it.
The Often Heard Album May 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Sorry for the review title, it's a good job Elbow do better songs than I do titles!
In light of the other reviews, do you really need another verbose offering? No. But this album needs another 5 stars, because it's a wonderful, wistful, melancholic, optimistic & occasionally ballsy ride. Put it this way, I now have 4 great Elbow albums in my collection, instead of just the 3!
And if you get a chance to see them live, do, they will blow you away!
The Often-Heard Kid (that gets better every time) April 28, 2008
Elbow never cease to amaze me; they are on the few bands that get progressively (no pun intended) better with each release. This instalment is less ballsy than Leaders of the Free World, but almost infinitely more beautiful with it's lashings of sweeping strings, arranged beautifully by the ginger genius, Guy Garvey.
The running theme (it seems to me at least) is domestic disaster, which reaches something of a climax with "The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver" -- a song which should stir some sort of emotion in any human being.
Don't listen to anyone that gives this less than a four!
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