There are, for sure, no surprises here, as Radiohead might have put it. But that’s not a bad thing because there is lots of love and a strong, beating heart.
All the usual Elbow ingredients are here, the chiming guitar which starts off ‘This Blue World’, drawing you in slowly to a gentle web of sound, Guy Garvey’s very sweet (and, under the surface, slightly bitter and edgy) vocals and lyrics dance a slow waltz of love and regret. This is another confident set, with a real air of reassurance and warmth, which explores matters of the heart both universal and very personal in raw detail and with real humour.
This is, then, another album which will burn itself slowly onto your memory and from which you will not want it to leave.
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