ELBOW Frontman GUY GARVEY About His Drumming Skills
26 June 2025
No Keith Moon future.
Busy summer/fall.
(Image on top: cover solo LP ‘Courting The Squall‘)
Elbow
ELBOW Invite Us On The Dancefloor With New Single ‘SOBER’
Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine
10 May 2025
British romantics ELBOW released their 4th No. 1 album, called Audio Vertigo last year.
Now, in a press statement they announced a new EP, named Audio Vertigo Echo.
It will feature last year’s stand-alone single Adriana Again and three brand new tracks, with SOBER as one of them.
Frontman Guy Garvey: “We are having more fun in the studio than ever before.
Craig’s on fire as a producer, Pete and Alex are the coolest rhythm section working and Pot’s unpredictable rhythm guitar has started working its way into such a soulful and accomplished place. The words are all stories from my past, sometimes joyful, often dark, but all of it exciting and mostly true. It feels like we’re having another go on the Waltzers after hours.”
Wake up people, put your dance
shoes and follow Elbow to the disco.
ELBOW Rock Out On New Ripper ‘ADRIANA AGAIN’
Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine
9 November 2024
Band: ELBOW
Who: Manchester’s
veteran pop unit.
Track: ADRIANA AGAIN
Following this year’s new LP Audio Vertigo the band offers
this new piece, that’ll be part of an EP, slated for release
sometime next year.
Oh yes, Elbow can rock out, with this
badass belter as convincing proof.
No idea who the band in the video is.
Only Guy Garvey & Co. know.
Wake up people,
elbows first.
TURN UP THE VOLUME’s JUKEBOX 2024 – 10 New Tracks Added Every Week
Every week 10 new rad tracks added
In order to not miss a beat Turn Up The Volume scans the musical
horizon daily (doing it for years now, actually) to stay in touch with
all new things sonically great and shares the results on a weekly
basis.
FULL JUKEBOX (so far)
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The 10 new ones added this week
TRACK-BY-TRACK
Artist: WHITEY
Who: British singer-songwriter whose music has made its mark, from rock’n’roll clubs
to electronic dance floors, fashion catwalks to movie soundtracks, television to computer games, from Breaking Bad and the Sopranos to Grand Theft Auto.
He has built a strange home in the shadows between mainstream entertainment and the vanishing underground, an outsider who celebrates his outsider ethos in his work- and yet whose music is embraced by both popular and alternative culture.
Track: LITTLE PIGGIES
Piece from his new album
Mental Radio released last
month.
A lo-fi swipe at politics and corruption.
Good old retro psych-pop at its entertaining
and catchy best.
Instagram
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Band: ELBOW
Who: Manchester’s
veteran pop unit.
Track: ADRIANA AGAIN
Following this year’s new LP Audio Vertigo the band offers this new
piece, that’ll be part of an EP, slated for release sometime next year.
Oh yes, Elbow can rock out, with this
badass belter as convincing proof.
No idea who the band in the video is.
Only Guy Garvey & Co. know.
Instagram – Spotify
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Band: ROSE FATAL
Who: Fresh Irish rioters.
Track: SO MATURE
“Great art holds a mirror up to the world; exposing its many flaws,
highlighting its beauty and screams back the question we are all too
afraid to ask. It’s this dichotomy that Rose Fatale bring to this new
single.”
This barbed wire punk
juggernaut challenges
your speakers.
Red-hot stroke.
Helter skelter.
Instagram – Spotify
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(Photo by Turn Up The Volume)
Band: PRIMAL SCREAM
Who: Scottish post-punk old-timers,
led by charismatic singer-songwriter
Bobby Gillespie.
Track: LOVE AIN’T ENOUGH
Stupendous highlight of their brand-new album
Come Ahead, out today. An orchestral rock missile.
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Instagram
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Artists: STUKA
Who: Finnish electro punks
of the 41st Millenium.
Track: SUNSET OF THE CORRUPTED
First taster of their upcoming 3rd album,
named Electronic Body Metal, out early 2025.
In the song, a female voice chanting in Latin on top of
an EBM techno beat create a moody, haunting atmosphere.
Poetic lyrics tell how corruption of the soul destroys men.
Expect a head-twisting electro-manic
trip to a nightclub galaxy.
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Instagram – Spotify
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Press
Band: DOVES
Who: English post-Britpop mavericks
who’ve been around for almost 25 years.
Track: RENEGADE
First preview of their forthcoming 6th LP, called
Constellations For The Lonely, out next year on Valentine’s Day.
“Looking at everyone’s lives over recent years, and considering the news at the moment, “Renegade” feels a lot more loaded in retrospect. We wanted to go for a dystopian feel,
thinking about Manchester itself over the next century or so. A totally imaginary thing…
Blade Runner set in our home city.”
Doves still know how to write compelling, lyrical
symphonies with a melodramatic appeal.
Instagram – Spotify
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📷 Jasmijn Slegh
Band: RATS OF RAFTS
Who: Dutch post-punk outfit who
entered the music scene in 2005.
Track: JAPANESE MEDICINE
Taster from their new, upcoming LP, titled
Deep Below that’ll land on 7 February 2025.
New album artwork
Darkwavish synths and lustrous guitar play
create a stirring Cure-esque atmosphere.
Instagram – Spotify
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Artist: CHRIS PELLNAT
Who: Musician from New York.
Track: WE ARE NOT ROBOTS
Artwork
It has a driving, energetic rock sensibility but with retro
sci-fi organ flourishes and big, fun singalong choruses.
60s psych-pop balancing somewhere
between early Pink Floyd and The Zombies.
“Sometimes I just want to be a child
Sometimes I like to get a little bit wild
Because we are not robots”
Instagram – Spotify
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Photo by Russell Whitehead
Artist: GARFIELD MAYOR
Who: Singer-songwriter crafting
heartfelt journeys to stir the soul.
Track: LIGHT THE DARK
“There’ve been times since Sony I’ve felt paralysed – like I’ve lost my voice, and can’t
honour my blessings… We’ve all got talents that define us – it’s vital we nurture them.
Light the Dark’s a call to exercise your talents no matter what… Or as Dr. King says:
‘we must keep moving’” muses Mayor”
Funky pop tune.
Steely Dan vibes.
Mixed emotions.
Emotive vocals.
Martin Luther King.
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Instagram – Spotify
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Band: LAIBACH
Who: Legendary Slovenian
avant-garde act.
Track: STRANGE FRUIT
“There’s something that’s still very radioactive about the song; it’s still relevant because race is still relevant. The impulses that Meeropol was talking about are very much still with us, on the front pages of our newspapers and across our social media every day. For us, ‘Strange Fruit’ evokes racial injustice, representing not just lynchings, but racism generally. Racism is a virus that mutates, taking on different forms as it adapts to a changing environment. Its mutation is made harder to observe by it being deeply embedded, not only in our traditions and institutions, but also in our unconscious lives.”
Minimalistic sonority.
Spooky spoken-word anger.
Fuck racism.
ELBOW – British Reliable Pop Architects Deliver Another Solid Album With ‘AUDIO VERTIGO’
New notable longplayers
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.
Promo photo
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
ALBUM
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ELBOW Rock Out On Tremendous Belter ‘GOOD BLOOD MEXICO CITY’ From Their Upcoming Full-Length
New striking strokes
13 March 2024
Promo photo
British veteran pop-rockers ELBOW have canned their 10th LP.
It’s named Audio Vertigo and sees the day of light on 22 March.
More info here.
Last week frontman Guy Garvey celebrated his 60th birthday and this week
he treats us with the third track, titled GOOD BLOOD MEXICO CITY, from
the impending full-length, a surprisingly heavy Elbow rocker
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ELBOW: Facebook – Instagram
TURN UP THE VOLUME’s JUKEBOX 2024 – 10 New Tracks Added Every Week
Every week 10 new rad tracks added
In order to not miss a beat Turn Up The Volume scans the musical
horizon daily (doing it for years now, actually) to stay in touch with
all new things sonically great and shares the results on a weekly
basis.
Check the 10 new rad cuts just
added to this rad 2024 playlist.
ALL TOGETHER
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TRACK BY TRACK
1. ‘Our World’ by JAMES (Manchester, UK)
Manchester‘s veteran pop celebs have canned album number 18.
It’s titled YUMMY and planned to be released on April 12.
Ahead of it comes this glorious gem Our World.
Wonderful.
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2. ‘Lights Down Low’ by DIE SEXUAL (Los Angeles)
Die Sexual is a Los Angeles-based dark electronic duo, that conjure their influences
of EBM, techno and electropop, their sound is an intoxicating mix of analog synthetics and seductive vocals, touching on themes of desire and despair, domination and submission.
They just released their brand new 3-track EP Inservio, with opener Lights Down Low
as my favorite. An electro booster with a tantalizing techno beat à la The Prodigy rotating non-stop.
Bang-on.
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3. ‘Horrors Of Your Hometown‘ by KISS BANG (Los Angeles)
It’s this Los Angeles duo’s – Kaya Stewart and Max Mercier – very first
track and is part of their upcoming debut EP, out on March 15.
Stewart: “From the minute we met we knew that we were musically kindred spirits. I think
we both have qualities in our own music that make us so individual and unique, and working together created a sound that neither of us had ever heard before, but felt so true to who we were.”
Mercier: “Kiss Bang is the biggest blessing for me as it allows me to create outside of the strict mental confines I set for myself when making music. Kaya’s music taste spans all genres and eras just like mine and she has an incredible ability to extract different sounds out of me. It’s super inspiring.”
‘Horrors Of Your Hometown’ is a revved-up electro-pop stomper peppered with sensuous power vocals and a sultry, catching chorus. Enough fuel to energize your limbs on the spot and get you going for the rest of the day.
Play.
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4. ‘Balu’ by ELBOW (UK)
Promo photo
British veteran pop-rockers ELBOW have canned their 10th LP.
It’s named Audio Vertigo and sees the day of light on 22 March.
Following the whimsical lead-single Lover’s Leap we get a 2nd new track.
BALU is a high-energetic and orchestral, symphonic composition.
Striking stroke.
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5. ‘Phase’ by KERRIGAN BARRY (Cleveland, Ohio)
Raw, real, and unapologetically reckless, Kerrigan Barry was born with a fire in her heart, stoked by rock ‘n’ roll in her bones. This Cleveland, Ohio native (now living in Nashville) found catharsis and truth in writing lyrics and melodies after watching Bruce Springsteen
& The E Street Band live as a 5-year-old kid. She began her lifelong love affair with music earlier than most. It has since proven to be the most beautifully intoxicating relationship she ever imagined experiencing.
New single Phase takes us back to the sounds of early 2000s teenage
nostalgia, giving us the modern Avril Lavinge fantasy we’ve always wanted.
It’s a bouncy, lively, rhapsodic and temperamental
forth-and-back rollin’ ripper. Inflammable stuff.
Here we go.
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6. ‘Two For His Heels’ by RICHARD HAWLEY (UK)
Press photo by 📸: Dean Chalkley
British gloomy songsmith delivers his 10th full-length,
named In This City They Call You Love on May 31st.
The album’s title is taken from the song ‘People’, which might well be the greatest song Hawley has written about his beloved Sheffield, the city’s proud industrial past and the enduring determination of its citizens.
Hawley: “I’ve made three albums where I had the title before I’d even begun to record,
where I had an agenda. One was Truelove’s Gutter. Another was Standing At The Sky’s Edge when I wanted to turn everything up and make the music a lot more aggressive, and then this one. I wanted it to be multi-coloured in a way focusing on the voice and what voices can do together… I deliberately only played a handful of guitar solos to keep it focused on voices,
the song and space.”
Here’s the top-notch movin’ and groovin’ taster, called Two For His Heels.
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7. ‘Just Sayin’ by GAME CHANGER (Canada)
This mysterious duo release music under the anonymity of their video game avatars, Jumpin’ Johnny’ and Flyin’ Ryan. They call it “8-bit pop music”. Check out below, the funky opener ‘Just Sayin’ from their brand new debut EP Sidescroller to discover what that
8-bit pop sounds like.
“The song is about overcoming the curveballs that life can throw at you; that there are many new and different things that can weigh you down, and it’s up to you to cut the cord and go with it.”
Whistle, hum and/or sing along right here.
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8. ‘Excuses Excuses’ by THE TRAMPOLINE DAY (Ontario, CA)
Hailing from the depths of the alternative rock scene of Toronto, musician Pete Marino, performs under the enigmatic alias The Trampoline Delay. He blends contemporary melodic, infectious, guitar-driven indie rock with the raw power and spirit of 90’s power pop/rock creating a sound that’s uniquely captivating. He released his debut album
In Your Head in 2022.
And here’s brand new single Excuses Excuses. A wayward pysch
jam with some The Jesus And Mary Chain and Sonic Boom echoes.
Top.
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9. ‘Waiting For You’ by T BONE BURNETT (US)
T Bone Burnett is a seasoned, always highly praised Grammy-award winning, veteran
who as a solo artist recorded several LPs and worked as a producer with Los Lobos, Elvis Costello, Brandi Carlile, and Robert Plant & Alison Krauss and so many more. He also toured with Bob Dylan and other famous friends.
Now 18 years after his last solo LP Burnett decided to come back with his
15th full-length. It’s baptized The Other Side and shows up on April 19.
The first single Waiting For You features backing vocals by female duo Lucius.
It’s a vintage romantic, yearning, bittersweet, sentimental and good old love
ballad.
Magnificent.
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10. ‘Time‘ by EELS (Los Angeles)
EELS launch their 15th LP, named EELS TIME! on June 7.
As always, all songs are fabricated/sung by Mark Oliver Everett.
First single TIME is a familiar-sounding Eels lullaby.
Ghostly and luring.
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ELBOW Share New High-Energetic Symphony ‘BALU’ From Their Upcoming 10th LP
Daily noise that works faster than any stimulant
2 March 2024
Promo photo
British veteran pop-rockers ELBOW have canned their 10th LP.
It’s named Audio Vertigo and sees the day of light on 22 March.
More info here.
Guy Garvey (frontman): “‘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 than its predecessor.”
Following the whimsical lead-single Lover’s Leap we get a second new track.
BALU is a high-energetic and orchestral, symphonic composition. Striking stroke.
Wake-up, people.
Elbow is on the stereo.
ELBOW: Instagram
ELBOW Announce 10th Album And Share First Whimsical Single ‘LOVER’S LEAP’
New striking strokes
26 January 2024
Promo photo
British veteran pop-rockers ELBOW have canned their 10th LP.
It’s named Audio Vertigo and sees the day of light on 22 March.
More info here.
Guy Garvey (frontman): “‘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 than its predecessor.”
Ahead of it comes first single LOVER’S LEAP.
It’s a whimsical, forth and back swinging piece, that
falls precisely into place after a couple of spins.
STREAM
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ELBOW: Facebook – Instagram