Elbow Begin Writing New Album

Psychedelic influences, they claim

Bury’s finest Elbow have begin writing psychedelic new material for their eagerly awaited new album.

After ten years of scraping by on the sidelines, Elbow are now the toast of British music. Releasing their album ‘The Seldom Seen Kid’ last year the band scored typically enthusiastic reviews.

Nominated for the Mercury Music Prize, the band waltzed away with the trophy amid emotional scenes. Beating off competition from Radiohead and more, the win was only the start of a remarkable year for Elbow.

Sparking off a huge flurry of interest in the band, Elbow found themselves catapulted into the mainstream with ‘The Seldom Seen Kid’ becoming one of the year’s biggest albums. A series of triumphant shows followed, before work on a follow up began recently.

Speculation has been rife over the new album, with the band retreating to the Scottish island of Mull to commence writing sessions.

Returning to their native Bury, singer Guy Garvey has now revealed that sessions are well under way for the new album. Speaking to Teletext, the frontman described how the band were working with a batch of “20 odd’ songs.

“We listen back every few weeks and have a culling,” he explained. “It goes on like that, until there are really solid foundations for 15 or 16 songs. It’s gone from shoegaze to psychedelia and it’ll change again next week. The shoegaze has left behind discord: Moogs and Mellotrons, backward guitars and celene strings.”

Guy Garvey has underwent some personal change for the album – the singer has moved from Manchester back to Bury. “I want to be closer to my folks,” he said. “They’re not that far as it is, but even closer isn’t a bad thing. I want my kids to have the option to fall out of trees, like I did. So I’m writing very affectionately about the city and the age I am.

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