Mercury Award winners Elbow have revealed in a new interview that they are already planning the follow up to their highly praised album “The Seldom Seen Kid” – and it will be aimed at children.
The band have received unanimous praise from critics after the release of album “The Seldom Seen Kid” earlier this year, scooping the Mercury Music Prize in the process. Lead singer Guy Garvey has revealed in a new interview with American magazine Billboard that Elbow’s new album may well be aimed at a new audience – children.
“We initially thought that it would be great to make music for children because the lads in the band have got kids and they were saying how little really decent music for children there is. The more that we thought about it the more that we liked the idea,” Garvey says. “We’ve quite often been up for having songs on children’s animated films, but we thought that it would be great to actually be at the starting point for that process.”
The as yet untitled project will be accompanied by an animated film, with Guy Garvey citing Jeff Wayne’s ambitious concept album “The War Of The Worlds” as an influence. Garvey states:
“It’s got to be something that not only works for us, but that works for the kids and when it’s read to them that they can get into. That’s what I love about it. It’s the most honest thing that we could do right now.”
