Elbow and The BBC Orchestra – Seldom Seen Kid Live At Abbey Road

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Label: Fiction Records 
Catalog#: 1799414 
Format: Box Set
CD, Album
DVD, NTSC, DVD-Video, 5.1, 2.0, Region 0, Dolby Digital
 
Country: UK
Released: 2009
Genre: Rock 
Style: Alternative Rock, Acoustic, Indie Rock 
Credits: Artwork By [Design] – Red Design
Artwork By [Illustration] – Oliver East
Bass – Pete Turner
Choir – London Choir Chantage
Conductor – Mike Dixon (7)
Drums – Richard Jupp
Guitar – Mark Potter
Keyboards – Craig Potter
Lyrics By [Words] – Guy Garvey
Mixed By – Craig Potter
Music By – Elbow
Other [Worldwide Management] – TRC Management Ltd.
Vocals – Guy Garvey 
Notes: Mixed at Blueprint Studios, Manchester.
Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London.
Published by Salvation Music (ASCAP)

For Bryan with all our love.

“The Bones of You” incorporates elements from “Summertime” by George Gershwin, Dubose Heyward, Dorothy Heyward and Ira Gershwin. Published by George Gershwin Music (ASCAP), Dubose and Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund Pub. (ASCAP) and Ira Gershwin Music (ASCAP).
All rights administered by WB Music Corp.

Bar-code / EAN: 0-06025-1799414-0
℗ & © 2009 Polydor Ltd. (UK)

Tracklisting:
CD.1   Starlings (6:31)
CD.2   The Bones Of You (5:12)
CD.3   Mirrorball (5:54)
CD.4   Grounds For Divorce (4:00)
CD.5   An Audience With The Pope (4:26)
CD.6   Weather To Fly (5:04)
CD.7   The Loneliness Of A Tower Crane Driver (5:26)
CD.8   The Fix (5:00)
    Music By – Richard Hawley
  Vocals, Guitar [Lead] – Richard Hawley 
CD.9   Some Riot (5:58)
CD.10   One Day Like This (6:39)
CD.11   Friend Of Ours (5:01)
DVD.1   Starlings (1:59)
DVD.2   The Bones Of You
DVD.3   Mirrorball
DVD.4   Grounds For Divorce
DVD.5   An Audience With The Pope
DVD.6   Weather To Fly
DVD.7   The Loneliness Of A Tower Crane Driver
DVD.8   The Fix
    Music By – Richard Hawley
  Vocals, Guitar [Lead] – Richard Hawley 
DVD.9   Some Riot
DVD.10   One Day Like This
DVD.11   Friend Of Ours

Stewart Mason (All Music Guide)
In a world where even the generally mediocre likes of Snow Patrol can have honest to goodness mainstream pop success, it seems peculiar that Elbow have never broken through beyond a devoted cult following. (Admittedly, the fact that their new labels, Polygram’s alt rock imprint Fiction Records in the U.K. and Geffen in the U.S., are their fourth and fifth, respectively, after stints on Island, EMI, and V2, may have a lot to do with their lack of mainstream attention.) Exploring the fruitful middle ground between early Radiohead’s mopey art rock and Coldplay’s radio-friendly dumbing down of the same, Elbow makes records built on a balance of things not often found together anymore: strange musical textures alongside immediately accessible pop song choruses, or unexpected left turns in song structure paired with frontman Guy Garvey’s warm, piercing vocals. It’s no surprise that Elbow are regularly compared to old-school prog rockers like Pink Floyd and Electric Light Orchestra: they’re proof that records can be cool and commercial at the same time, an idea that’s not particularly hip in this day and age. Yet a song like “Grounds for Divorce,” which puts a sharp, wryly funny Garvey lyric against a clanging, Tom Waits-like arrangement and throws on one of the album’s catchiest tunes for good measure, or “Some Riot,” which filters a yearning, lovely melody for guitar and piano through so many layers of effects and processing that it can be hard to tell what the original instruments sounded like, isn’t afraid to display its accessibility even on its most experimental numbers. At the album’s best, including the spacious, atmospheric balladry of the opening “Starlings” (imagine if Sigur R?s} could write a pop song as emotionally direct as {$Keane’s “Everybody’s Changing”) and the potential radio breakthroughs of the soaring, semi-orchestral epic “One Day Like This” (complete with choral climax!) and the wistful “Weather to Fly,” The Seldom Seen Kid is Elbow’s most self-assured and enjoyable album so far. [The U.K. version added “We’re Away” as a bonus track.]