Elbow: Build a Rocket Boys! – review

They may be unlikely rock stars, but Elbow's latest album shows their success is anything but implausible, says Alexis PetridisThe shelves of your local newsagent currently offer at least one unlikely sight. A chubby, bearded man in a suit stares out from the cover of Britain's biggest-selling music magazine. His face, which looks, perhaps, a little older than his 37 years, is arranged in the kind of lugubrious expression that was once the trademark of a fellow Greater Mancunian, Les Dawson: he ...

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