Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid album flac
Performer: ElbowTitle: The Seldom Seen Kid
Style: Indie Rock
Released: 2009
Country: Europe
MP3 album: 1708 mb
FLAC album: 1185 mb
Rating: 4.3
Other formats: DXD FLAC VOC RA WMA AAC VQF
Genre: Rock
The Seldom Seen Kid is precise but warm-and a winner all around. The Seldom Seen Kid Elbow. With their fourth album, Elbow finally connected with an audience as big as their symphonic ambitions. Finding the sweet spot between Pink Floyd and Coldplay, the LP nestles Guy Garvey's grizzled baritone into epic arrangements of strings, horns and electronics. With its sweeping violins and choral vocals, "One Day Like This" is made for star-lit arenas, while "Grounds for Divorce" sports a grimy rock swagger. The Seldom Seen Kid is precise but warm-and a winner all around.
Yet Elbow are album artists, first and foremost, and in that context it's hard to come up with a better way to ease into The Seldom Seen Kid. Indeed, the similarly exotic second track "The Bones of You", with its flamenco underpinnings and Gershwin coda, stands in stark contrast to its predecessor, and it's here that the benefits of Garvey's voice really come into play. Were he to rise to a pained falsetto, "The Bones of You" would invite endless comparisons to other, slightly more conspicuous British art-rock bands
Starlings– the first track on Elbow’s fourth album The Seldom Seen Kid– is all about expectations, or at least subverting them. The track begins with an intense cacophony before settling into a vaguely Polynesian groove; a sole orchestral stab blasts out as quickly as it disappears once again. It’s a full two minutes before Garvey even sings, and by then one would be forgiven for thinking that, modest melody aside, expectation is all the suspensefully static track has to offer
I'm asking you to back a horse that's good for glue," sings Guy Garvey on "Starlings", the opening track of Elbow's fourth album – though on the evidence here, this band is far from ready for the knacker's yard. Admittedly, it's a ponderous opening, with Garvey's intimate vocal punctuated by blasts of blaring synthetic horns; but "The Bones of You" and "Grounds for Divorce" allay fears, the former a lilting indie waltz, the latter resembling a modern chain-gang chant.
The Seldom Seen Kid is the fourth studio album by the English alternative rock band Elbow. It was released by Fiction Records on 17 March 2008 in the United Kingdom and was released by Geffen Records on 22 April 2008 in the United States. The album debuted at number five on the UK Albums Chart and won the Mercury Prize in 2008. The album was recorded at Blueprint Studios in Manchester, and is the first Elbow album to be entirely self-produced, mixed and recorded without any outside help. The bulk of the record was written and performed by the band, aside from a guest appearance from singer-songwriter Richard Hawley, who contributes guest vocals, lead guitar and co-songwriting on "The Fix". The Seldom Seen Kid also incorporated dynamic range and made note of this in its packaging, by promoting Turn Me Up! in the album's packaging.
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Tracklist
| 1 | Starlings | 5:05 |
| 2 | The Bones Of You | 4:49 |
| 3 | Mirrorball | 5:50 |
| 4 | Grounds For Divorce | 3:39 |
| 5 | An Audience With The Pope | 4:27 |
| 6 | Weather To Fly | 4:29 |
| 7 | The Loneliness Of A Tower Crane Driver | 5:14 |
| 8 | The Fix | 4:27 |
| 9 | Some Riot | 5:23 |
| 10 | One Day Like This | 6:34 |
| 11 | Friend Of Ours | 4:38 |
Notes
Digipak.(P) 2008 (C) 2009 Polydor Ltd. (UK)
The copyright in this recording is owned by Polydor (UK) Limited, a Universal Music Company.
BIEM/SABAM - Made in the EU.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode: 6 00753 20976 9
Other versions
| Category | Artist | Title (Format) | Label | Category | Country | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1764098, 0-06025-1764098-6 | Elbow | The Seldom Seen Kid (CD, Album, Sup) | Fiction Records, Fiction Records | 1764098, 0-06025-1764098-6 | Europe | 2008 |
| 1764728 | Elbow | The Seldom Seen Kid (2x12", Album, RE) | Fiction Records | 1764728 | UK & Europe | 2012 |
| none | Elbow | The Seldom Seen Kid (CDr, Album, Copy Prot., Promo) | Fiction Records | none | Europe | Unknown |
| 1764252, 0-06025-1764252-2 | Elbow | The Seldom Seen Kid (CD, Album, Sup) | Fiction Records, Fiction Records | 1764252, 0-06025-1764252-2 | Europe | Unknown |
| none | Elbow | The Seldom Seen Kid (CDr, Album, Promo, Smplr) | Fiction Records | none | Europe | 2008 |









