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Mar 25, 2024Audio Vertigo, Elbow’s tenth studio album, is both a return to form and a step into new musical territory. The sound familiar to long-term listeners remains prevalent, while elements of funk and Eurodisco creep into the grooves.
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Mar 25, 2024It’s their best album in years – maybe since The Seldom Seen Kid – and one of those records that will throw up new little surprises on each listen many months from now. Not only one of our most consistent bands, but also one of our most surprising – the national treasure status is well earned.
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Classic Rock MagazineMar 21, 2024The energy and buoyancy never sacrifice Elbow's innate knack for emotional impact, as Garvey sings with poetic accuracy of the abyss, various hallelujahs and the meaning of love. [Apr 2024, p.82]
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Mar 21, 2024This is an album that further cements their legacy and feels like it captures elements from across their 20-year career into something wholly new and exciting.
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Mar 27, 2024As ever, a warm and humane kind of marvel
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Mar 22, 2024He 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.
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MojoMar 21, 2024Sung with his steamrollered Mancunian vowels intact, Garvey's allusive, playful lyrics are as golden as those of your Bermans and Caves here, drawing on Wordsworth, but also name-checking Leo Sayer and The Jungle Book's affable bear, Baloo. [Apr 2024, p.82]
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UncutMar 21, 2024Top stuff. [Mar 2024, p.25]
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Mar 21, 2024‘Audio Vertigo’ is their best record in years, and one to blow the cobwebs off some sleepy arenas this summer.
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Mar 21, 2024Although AUDIO VERTIGO may not be their finest work, the richly layered album-oriented rock is stacked with shrewd melodies and it’s nice to see Elbow stepping outside their comfort zone and reaching back a bit to reconnect with their daring and adventurous ways.
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Mar 26, 2024This is a good album for a band as deep into their career as Elbow, but it’s also worthwhile even without that qualifier. The band aren’t getting any younger, but they are getting wiser and, dare I say, more fun.
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