âWe referenced The Meters, Beastie Boys, Sly and Family Stone, Jimi Hendrix, Arctics, Queens of the Stone Age, Bolan, Tom Waits, Public Enemy and Alison Moyet and thatâs just the opening song.â (Guy Garvey, October 2023)
Things Iâve Been Telling Myself for Years – Loversâ Leap – (Where Is It?) â Balu – Very Heaven – Her to the Earth – The Picture – Poker Face – Knife Fight – Embers of Day – Good Blood Mexico City – From the River
25 JANUARY 2024 (TORONTO, ON) â elbow return in March with their tenth studio album, AUDIO VERTIGO. Recorded throughout 2023 at the bandâs individual studios, Migration Studios, Gloucestershire, and finalised at the bandâs facility at Blueprint Studios, Salford, the album marks a significant step change for the group following 2021âs “Flying Dream 1”.
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In the words of lead singer and lyricist Guy Garvey, AUDIO VERTIGO was built from âgnarly, seedy grooves created by us playing together in garagey roomsâ and is both more direct and sonically varied by purpose that its predecessor.
Characterised by the band as an album heavy on stomp, swing, and infectious oil-can funk beats, AUDIO VERTIGO sees elbow on the front foot, fusing their love of varied and various styles on a collection that ranges from the Beastie Boys meets Bonham breaks of opener “Things Iâve Been Telling Myself For Years”, through the âtheme for a futuristic cop showâ, (Guy again), of lead single “Loverâs Leap” to the infectiously funky “Balu”.
The wide screen ambition doesnât end with the music. Guy delivers a lyrical sweep on the album that considers our obsession with star crossed lovers, admonishes, and forgives his self-delusion, puzzles the nature of loss in a digital age, and narrates a real-life knife fight, all the while finding friends, real and imagined, and experiences, genuine and mythical, along the way. Long a fan of Radio 4âs “In Our Time”, the lyrics of AUDIO VERTIGO match that programâs scale and scope in their ambition and their execution, including surely the only recorded presence of the Chandrasekhar Limit in a pop song in âKnife Fightâ.
AUDIO VERTIGO is released by Polydor Records/Universal Music Canada on March 22nd, 2024, on Vinyl album, CD, digital download and across all streaming services. Limited edition vinyl releases include an elbow store exclusive mirror board sleeve with crystal clear vinyl and a transparent blue edition with selected retailers. Limited quantities of a signed CD version will be available exclusively via Amazon.
An album designed to play live, full of big moments, elbow follow its release in March with a full UK arena tour in May. For full tour updates and itinerary, visit elbow.co.uk.
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