This Week's Singles Reviewed - 25/04/11

Elbow - ‘Open Arms’ “THANK YOU COMIC RELIEF FOR SHOWING ME THIS FUCKING SONG/BAND!!!! God this is amazing,” writes one Youtube commenter, and to me, this is the sentiment that binds together all Elbow fans. The mistaken belief that what they are getting is something hitherto unheralded, when in fact what they are getting is something record-breakingly ordinary. I realise this is the bit where I'm traditionally supposed to talk about how Guy Garvey is 'the nicest man in rock', whatever...

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