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25 March 2024

British veteran pop-rock combo ELBOW have their 10th LP, named Audio Vertigo out.

Guy Garvey (voice/lyricist): “Audio Vertigo was built from ‘gnarly, seedy grooves created
by us playing together in garagey rooms’ and is both more direct and sonically varied by purpose that its predecessor.”

The Guardian (British newspaper): “The band’s 10th album incorporates African and South American rhythms and instrumentation alongside Guy Garvey’s darkest, funniest lyrics for years. Garvey tackles a diversity of topics, from the welfare state to memories of teenage wildness, with some razor-sharp writing. The singer is forever finding new ways to use his voice. He experiments with texture and even puts it through a vocoder but, for all Elbow’s adventures, the foundations are still classy songwriting, heart and soul.”
Score: 4/5.

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TUTV: After 10 LPs chances are huge that you sound familiar. Which happens here
on Elbow‘s new one. And that’s okay as long as your new set of new songs is alluringly constructed, musically and lyrically, in a way that your ears’ attention is irresistibly
drawn, as happens here.

Elbow are reliable pop music architects for a very long time who work with two different
kind of sonic brisks. Wayward crooner wanderings such as Things I’ve Been Telling Myself
For Years, Very Heaven, Her To Earth and Poker Face, and orchestral discharges such as Balu, The Picture, and my favorite one Good Blood Mexico City. Nothing really overwhelming, but solid songwriting everywhere (except for the two useless transition fragments). Another Elbow mission accomplished.

TUTV’s STAND OUT TRACK

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