Elbow: Build a Rocket Boys!

(Fiction)Elbow's victory at the 2008 Mercury prize was a triumph for a kind of soppy manfulness. It was a bearded, bear-like defence of staunch emotion and the gruff heroism of the everyday. Elbow's fifth album hasn't exactly been dazzled by the bright lights of the Bury band's success. It has not shaved clean, nor hankered after the sonic bling an A-list producer might have bestowed. At the limit, singer Guy Garvey has conceded, Elbow now wear slightly nicer shoes.Resisting, too, the flawed ind...

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