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The Seldom Seen Kid | 
 enlarge | Artist: Elbow
Label: Polydor Group
Category: Music
List Price: £16.99
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Rating:  106 reviews
Sales Rank: 47
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Running Time: 56 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 602517640986
EAN: 0602517640986
ASIN: B0013F2M52
Release Date: March 17, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Tracks:
| • | Starlings | | • | The Bones Of You | | • | Mirrorball | | • | Grounds For Divorce | | • | An Audience With The Pope | | • | Weather To Fly | | • | The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver | | • | The Fix - Elbow, Richard Hawley | | • | Some Riot | | • | One Day Like This | | • | Friend Of Ours | | • | We're Away |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
There are few things in life quite so liberating as the opening track on an Elbow album--they're like airlocks between the plainness of the outside world and the elaborate melancholic heave-ho that you are likely about to submerge yourself in. Following predecessors "Any Day Now", "Ribcage" and "Station Approach", "Starlings" opens their fourth album The Seldom Seen Kid rising from a bed of tumbling electronic subtlety like a depressed Atari game loading up, adding bare touches of piano, glimpses of ambient guitar, out of body background vocals, an understated pulse and a wisp of strings, before--EXCELSIS!--a fanfare avalanche of horns crashes the gate and elevates things to gasping palatial heights, before Guy Garvey's inimitable gravel tone and wrenchingly poetic reinterpretations of the everyday announce their arrival proper. It's astonishing, by far the most progressive moment on the album and if anything it sets the bar too high. But even when the pace dips, and songs like "Mirrorball" and "Weather to Fly" don't distinguish themselves quite enough, their textural peerlessness remains. This is a beautiful sounding record. Their collaboration with Richard Hawley may be more of a curiosity than a thing of beauty, but the highs, the riffing cross-stitch of "Ground for Divorce", the desolate grandeur of "The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver" and the enlightened string-laden anthem "On a Day Like This" (like their own Sound of Music--only substitute the Alpine peaks for a Manchester high-rise) number amongst the best of their career. --James Berry
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| Customer Reviews: Read 101 more reviews...
 Very disapointed November 28, 2008
K. Weadick (Surrey, U.K.)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
bought this album on the streangth of hearing the single ( last track on album ) and I have to say how disapointed I was with the reat of the album, only buy this cd if your a fan of the group themselves
 My faith firmly restored in the British public - give yourself a pat on the back November 26, 2008
Red on Black (Cardiff)
Both the huge support/acclaim for this album and the John Sergeant affair are proof that we should never underestimate our enduring ability to occasionally do the right thing. Elbow are a great band. Never fashionable, no gimmicks, not much fuss but always able to create great music. All their albums are streeta aheads of the wretched Keane, Snow Patrol and Razorlight. Here they move into overdrive. Some of the most wonderful songs ever recorded by a British band are contained on this CD. Weather to Fly had me weeping like a professional onion peeler; Mirroball is very powerful & romantic with superb lyrics
"We took the town to town last night.
We kissed like we invented it!
And now I know what every step is for:
To lead me to your door".
Then you have On days like this, Grounds for Divorce and the lovely "Friends of ours" which is a superb closer. I was so chuffed when they won the Mercury award. Their delight and response was a joy. None of this "we are great artists and to good for awards" or "too hip to pretend that we really do care". Its been a long road for them to travel and Guy Garvey's reaction was genuine and honest just like their music.
A plea. Buy it for Christmas for every member of your family, give it to your friends, play it to the cat, send multiple copies to that idiot Simon Cowell and make him have Elbow night on the X Factor. Better still take that rubbish of the TV for a week and give the stage to Elbow. Make it the Christmas No 1 album, give a knighthood to each band member......I'm going for a lie down now
The Seldom Seen Kid November 25, 2008
Patrick__W
I bought this album after hearing them live on Colin Murray's show. They played some songs live, and they were so different to anything I really listened to. Instantly loving the songs 'Grounds For Divorce' and 'One Day Like This', I decided to purchase the album. The music they make is so chilled and calmed but sounds so good! I find this very good to listen to when I revise as I am a student. The album as is nothing dramatic, but rather calm and soothing. Some of the lyrics are very clever and catchy: I can't help loving every song.
For 7 this album is a bargain, and no wonder it has so many ratings!!!
Just one more album....please?? November 24, 2008
Mrs. L. Autton (Spain)
This is pure genius from start to finish. I've just heard this may be ELBOW's final album.......One more please Mr Garvey...I and many others, judging by the reviews here, have only just discovered you!!
uncovered gems November 6, 2008
A. J. Pearson (Kettering, UK)
Sorry to say I had never even heard of Elbow until I caught them on TV at this years Glastonbury.
Liked what I heard and bought the album (before they won the Mercury prize I hasten to add)
Was completely blown away by it. Have since invested in their back catalogue which have been equally impressive. All are highly recommended
It has certainly restored my interest in music .
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