(Polydor) Elbow's eighth album comes wreathed in a ghostly pallor. Recorded over two years in which too many of the band's friends and family passed away, the easy sentimentality of their biggest songs has been abandoned for something grittier, angrier and greyer. Giants of All Sizes is not an album to be filleted and squashed into playlists; it's the sort of deeply serious and carefully crafted work that would sprout a beard and a cable-knit jumper if you turned your back on it for a second. Se...
(Polydor) Elbow's eighth album comes wreathed in a ghostly pallor. Recorded over two years in which too many of the band's friends and family passed away, the easy sentimentality of their biggest songs has been abandoned for something grittier, angrier and greyer. Giants of All Sizes is not an album to be filleted and squashed into playlists; it's the sort of deeply serious and carefully crafted work that would sprout a beard and a cable-knit jumper if you turned your back on it for a second. Se...
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