On their preceding album, 2005’s Leaders Of The Free World, Elbow had begun to grow more direct. Their first two — 2001’s Asleep In The Back and 2003’s Cast Of Thousands — were firmly in that ...

Welcome to the 37th Songs of the Week of 2024. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week because we were still reeling from the election results and also artists, labels, and publicists were smart ...

Elbow have announced a new EP, AUDIO VERTIGO ECHO elbow EP 5, and shared a new song from it, “Sober.” The EP is due out June 6 via Polydor/Geffen and follows the British band’s 2024 album, AUDIO ...

Elbow struggle with “high energy” songs. The ‘Grounds for Divorce’ hitmakers have “given up” on writing up tempo tracks in the past because they have taken too much work to get right, and they ...