
From Loudersound.
Elbow have announced that they’ll release their new studio album, Flying Dream 1, through Polydor Records on November 19.
The band wrote Flying Dream 1 remotely in their home studios before coming together at the empty Brighton Theatre Royal to perfect, perform, and record the songs. A film crew covered the final recording sessions for a forthcoming documentary.
“Hiring a two hundred year old theatre that has never in its history been closed for so long was something that could only be done under the circumstances… nice to turn it on its head in that way,” says singer Guy Garvey. “Recording in a splendid generous space with no audience was something that throws an anchor in the times that the record was made in.”
During the first lockdown the band recorded the ‘elbowrooms’ sessions and uploaded them to YouTube. They used that impetus to begin writing individually, sending each other little love notes over the weeks and months, and these sketches gradually became songs.
“We realised we were making a record free of the usual creative guidelines,” Garvey adds. “We love patient, quiet, whole albums like the last Talk Talk records. John Martyn‘s Sold Air and Bless The Weather, PJ Harvey’s Is This Desire, Chet Baker Sings, the Blue Nile’s Hats. Kate Bush’s Hounds Of Love and Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks. We’ve always written songs like this, but it felt natural to make an album that focuses on the gentler side of our music. There have been challenges, but through them writing together remotely was a lifeline. It’s bruised and wistful, nostalgic, and thankful. We’re so lucky that all our family and friends are safe. It’s about that love.”
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- Elbow - August & September - RSD17 - UK - 7" vinyl - £19.99, $24.59, €22.59 (New Item) (arrived 25-Jan-2023 12:57)on February 2, 2023 at 8:40 pm
ELBOW August & September (2017 UK/EU limited edition one-track single-sided 7" Heavyweight Vinyl single [with an etching on Side B] featuring their cover version of The The track released exclusively for Record Store Day in aide of CALM [Campaign Against Living Miserably] in association with Torch Songs. The disc looks barely played issued in a clear PVC sleeve with the black & white titled insert)
- Elbow - The Take Off And Landing Of Everything - 180gm - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £29.99, $36.89, €33.89 (New Item) (arrived 06-Oct-2022 12:59)on February 2, 2023 at 8:40 pm
ELBOW The Take Off And Landing Of Everything (2020 UK limited edition issue of the 2014 10-track LP pressed on 180 GRAM VINYL , including Fly Boy Blue/Lunette and New York Morning, housed in a gatefold picture sleeve with illustrated inners. This copy remains in near as new condition)
- Elbow - Build A Rocket Boys! - 180gram Vinyl - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £24.99, $30.74, €28.24 (New Item) (arrived 05-Oct-2022 16:28)on February 2, 2023 at 8:40 pm
ELBOW Build A Rocket Boys! (2018 UK/EU limited edition 11-track double 180gram Heavyweight Vinyl LP, their Mercury Award nominated fifth studio album with a guest appearance from the Halle Youth Choir, including the singles Neat LittleRows, Open Arms, Lippy Kids, Dear Friends and The Night Will Always Win. Housed in a gold foiled gatefold picture sleeve. This copy remains in near as new condition)
- Elbow - Dexter & Sinister - Etched - UK - 10" vinyl - £12.00, $14.76, €13.56 (New Item) (arrived 04-Oct-2022 15:53)on February 2, 2023 at 8:40 pm
ELBOW Dexter & Sinister (2019 UK limited edition single-sided 10" vinyl single with an etched B-Side, featuring the opening track of their 'Giants Of All Sizes' album. The vinyl looks barely played in the Polydor die-cut paper sleeve with a barcode stickered protective plastic sleeve)
- Elbow - Leaders Of The Free World - Sealed - German - vinyl LP - £24.99, $30.74, €28.24 (Back In Stock) (arrived 22-Aug-2022 07:53)on February 2, 2023 at 8:40 pm
ELBOW Leaders Of The Free World (2020 German remastered Audiophile issue of their classic 2005 11-track LP pressed on heavyweight vinyl, gatefold picture sleeve reproducing the original album artwork. Factory sealed from new)
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