The best pop for 2011

Alexis Petridis chooses his pop picks of the coming year, kicking off with news of Elbow's forthcoming tourElbowElbow, by frontman Guy Garvey's own admission, found themselves in a peculiar new position when they came to record their fifth album – Build a Rocket Boys! – which will be out early this year. "It's the first time that our whole lives aren't hanging on the success of a record," he chuckles. "And everyone has slightly better shoes."Their 2008 LP The Seldom Seen Kid was already thei...

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