Track Listing

1. Starlings - Craig Potter, Elbow, Guy Garvey, Mark Potter, Pete Turner, Richard Jupp, Ian Burdge, Prabjote Osahn, Stella Page, Tim Barber, Tim Young
2. The Bones Of You - Craig Potter, Elbow, Guy Garvey, Mark Potter, Pete Turner, Richard Jupp, Tim Barber, Tim Young
3. Mirrorball - Craig Potter, Elbow, Guy Garvey, Mark Potter, Pete Turner, Richard Jupp, Tim Barber, Tim Young
4. Grounds For Divorce - Craig Potter, Elbow, Guy Garvey, Danny Evans, Mark Potter, Pete Turner, Richard Jupp, Tim Young
5. An Audience With The Pope - Craig Potter, Elbow, Guy Garvey, Mark Potter, Pete Turner, Richard Jupp, Tim Young
6. Weather To Fly - Craig Potter, Elbow, Guy Garvey, Mark Potter, Pete Turner, Richard Jupp, Ben Parsons, Nick Smart, Matt Ball, Sheona White, Tim Young
7. The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver - Craig Potter, Elbow, Guy Garvey, Mark Potter, Pete Turner, Richard Jupp, Tim Young
8. The Fix - Craig Potter, Elbow, Guy Garvey, Richard Hawley, Angela Thwaite, Mark Potter, Pete Turner, Richard Jupp, Tim Young, Louise Turner
9. Some Riot - Craig Potter, Elbow, Guy Garvey, Mark Potter, Pete Turner, Richard Jupp, Tim Young
10. One Day Like This - Craig Potter, Elbow, Guy Garvey, Danny McTague, Mark Potter, Pete Turner, Richard Jupp, Ian Burdge, Prabjote Osahn, Stella Page, Tim Young, Angela Thwaite, Louise Turner
11. Friend Of Ours - Craig Potter, Elbow, Guy Garvey, Danny Evans, Mark Potter, Pete Turner, Richard Jupp, Ben Parsons, Nick Smart, Matt Ball, Sheona White, Ian Burdge, Prabjote Osahn, Stella Page, Tim Young
12. We're Away - Craig Potter, Elbow, Guy Garvey, Mark Potter, Pete Turner, Richard Jupp, Mazen Murad

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #71 in Music
• Released on: 2008-03-17
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .23 pounds
• Running time: 56 minutes

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

CD Description
Epic post-rock tinged emotional indie stalwarts Elbow release their fourth album 'The Seldom Seen Kid', another staunchand anthemic collection of songs. The tense and emotional sound of previous records remains, but with a distinctly morecommercial riff-based template, particularly on lead single'Grounds For Divorce'. The band produced the record themselves, as with previous outings, lending it a homespun qualitythat 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'.