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Apr 19, 2017The band add welcome bite to proceedings with the result that this album is immensely more satisfying than Garvey’s fussy 2015 solo debut, Courting the Squall.
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Feb 9, 2017Musically and thematically, everything about Little Fictions’ gestation has conspired to create arguably the most taut and urgent album of Elbow’s career.
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Feb 6, 2017While this seventh album continues the band’s slow move away from the anthemic drama of The Seldom Seen Kid, there’s a richness of ideas here that rewards repeated listening.
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Feb 2, 2017K2 (“I’m from a land with an island status / Makes us think everyone hates us”) brings a motorik groove to Brexit Britain, on as fine an album as Elbow have ever made.
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Feb 2, 2017Little Fictions, their seventh, is, reliably, a very good Elbow album.
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Feb 1, 2017It might just as easily be christened their most intimate, their most casual, and their most soulful. All of these superlatives are relative, of course; the album grows in stature and appeal with every spin, and distinguishes itself as an Elbow album not quite like any other.
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Feb 1, 2017If you’re chasing the initial buzz, Little Fictions is quite a hit.
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Feb 1, 2017Another memorable release for Elbow. Compositionally, Elbow remains one of rock music’s most invaluable practitioners, and the complexity of this music makes Garvey’s positive pronouncements on life feel real, not platitudinal.
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Jan 30, 2017For now, Elbow have created another record that comfortably matches up to anything they’ve released to date.
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MojoJan 24, 2017Little Fictions is more upbeat in tempo and outlook an sounds like a band given a jolting shot of B12. [Mar 2017, p.88]
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Jan 20, 2017Elbow sounds more refreshed than they have since The Seldom Seen Kid, and hopefully Little Fictions is a signal of the beginning of a new creative phase. [Jan - Mar 2017, p.65]
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Q MagazineJan 20, 2017Out of disappointment and distress, Elbow have crafted another brilliant album. [Mar 2017, p.104]
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Jan 20, 2017In a career spanning more than two decades, Elbow have always taken things at their own pace, and this shows in Little Fictions’ pleasing rhythms.
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UncutJan 20, 2017Little Fictions is the sound of a band doing what it's always done, and doing it with style. [Mar 2017, p.28]
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Feb 6, 2017Little Fictions is another solid entry in the Elbow catalog.
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Feb 9, 2017Unlike its predecessor--where the weight of the past sometimes bogged down the tempos, too--Little Fictions moves.
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Feb 3, 2017All of it adds up to an album that feels quietly hopeful, making it a tonic for troubled times.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 35 out of 44
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Mixed: 8 out of 44
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Negative: 1 out of 44
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Aug 26, 2022
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Nov 11, 2020Fabulous! Just wanted to rate it, 75 characters needed, wow. Just 14 more to go.
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May 16, 2017