Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Hail the New Kings
I am now prepared, on the evidence of their latest albums, to agree that Radiohead are no longer the best band in Britain. Elbow are.
While the 'head one was ok but nothing special with only two or three outstandingly good songs the new Elbow one is another excellent effort. They haven't made anything approaching a bad album yet, Elbow, and I've been revisiting the older stuff too. There's only a few songs that don't hit the spot across all the stuff they've released.
And Guy Garvey's lyrics are easily the best of any working pop musician. If he tips over to sentiment now and again, that's his only fault but he can craft a moving stream of words to back the wonderful music his band produces.
I now regret not seeing them live this time around: I did go last tour, and it was special...I had tears in my eyes at Newborn (it still invariably does that to me) and the between song banter was cool too.
Oh, and any band who takes their name from 'The Singing Detective' gets my vote.
All hail the 'bow.
While the 'head one was ok but nothing special with only two or three outstandingly good songs the new Elbow one is another excellent effort. They haven't made anything approaching a bad album yet, Elbow, and I've been revisiting the older stuff too. There's only a few songs that don't hit the spot across all the stuff they've released.
And Guy Garvey's lyrics are easily the best of any working pop musician. If he tips over to sentiment now and again, that's his only fault but he can craft a moving stream of words to back the wonderful music his band produces.
I now regret not seeing them live this time around: I did go last tour, and it was special...I had tears in my eyes at Newborn (it still invariably does that to me) and the between song banter was cool too.
Oh, and any band who takes their name from 'The Singing Detective' gets my vote.
All hail the 'bow.
