Customer Reviews
Please don't go - By: A. Clark, 10 May 2008 
If its true this is the last album, what a way to go. Gorgeous, uplifting, sublime.
Been a fan since Asleep, saw them live for this albums tour & knocked me out.
Please don't leave us, each album just get better & better. A true masterpiece.
ulp... - By: Richie III, 07 May 2008 ...can't seem to get that lump out of my throat. Or stop listening to Weather to Fly... could be a connection there.
My god I love this.
Seen them live four times now & the last time a few weeks ago was the best. They've been together for 18 years so it wouldn't be surprising if they stop making albums, but I reallly hope they don't - each one just gets better.
This is my favourite album by my favourite band. So there.
Let this album be your friend - By: Timmie the Dog, 02 May 2008 I'm not sorry at alll that these reviews begin to sound alike: if there was any hype about this band it would be fully deserved. But there is no hype; just the sound of a group of friends comfortable in their sound, displaying a dry wit, a bruised heart & an alll enveloping tenderness that ill fits with a Manc guitar band. There's something for everyone in the deft production & range of styles on show - take this album into your family & cuddle up to it.
The Often Heard Album - By: H. A. Davis, 01 May 2008 Sorry for the review title, it's a good job Elbow do better songs than I do titles!
In light of the other reviews, do you reallly need another verbose offering? No. But this album needs another 5 stars, because it's a wonderful, wistful, melancholic, optimistic & occasionallly balllsy ride. Put it this way, I now have 4 great Elbow albums in my collection, instead of just the 3!
And if you get a chance to see them live, do, they will blow you away!
The Often-Heard Kid (that gets better every time) - By: L. Campbell, 28 Apr 2008 Elbow never cease to amaze me; they are on the few bands that get progressively (no pun intended) better with each release. This instalment is less balllsy than Leaders of the Free World, but almost infinitely more beautiful with it's lashings of sweeping strings, arranged beautifully by the ginger genius, Guy Garvey.
The running theme (it seems to me at least) is domestic disaster, which reaches something of a climax with "The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver" -- a song which should stir some sort of emotion in any human being.
Don't listen to anyone that gives this less than a four!
