7.8
Avg Score
4
Opinions
#7,233
All Time
11
Tracks
“Elbow’s Little Fictions is a tense treatise on truth and beauty”
“It’s unfortunate that the cover art for Elbow’s seventh album reflects the cartoonish sci-fi aesthetic of 2016 video game No Man’s Sky, a near-endless virtual universe of 18 quintillion planets that many gamers found to be a repetitive and dreary façade of stratospheric enormity. Some feel the same way about Elbow and, lacking any glorious unifying anthems like ‘One Day Like This’ and, um, all of ”
“Elbow’s latest deepens their formula—rich, sweeping rock songs about melancholy and love—with a dreamy sense of loss and time passing.”
