“Guy Garvey and co. return with the prettiest songs of their storied career”
“When the pandemic hit and Brighton’s Theatre Royal stood empty for months, Elbow were able to use its atmospheric surroundings to record their ninth album, having started writing the songs individually in their home studios during the first lockdown. The result feels like a logical progression from 2019’s Giants of All Sizes, an album that was at odds with the prevailing, Spotify-friendly currents”
““We realised we were making a record free of the usual creative guidelines,” explains Elbow frontman Guy Garvey about the making of their ninth studio album ‘Flying Dream 1’. “We love patient, quiet, whole albums like the last Talk Talk records, John Martyn’s ‘Sold Air’ and PJ Harvey‘s ‘Is This Desire’.” He’s not wrong: ‘Flying Dream 1’ is by far the most downbeat, mellow collection the Bury band”
