'Flying Dream 1' is Elbow's loveliest album yet. Read ed_and_thestone's review:
Few bands this side of Noel Gallagher can write cathartic, hands-in-the-air-inducing songs like Elbow can. Go to a festival in the U.K. and you’llLittle Fiction’s “One Day Like This,” makes you think, well, “one day like this a year will see me right.”
But dig deeper on every Elbow album and you’ll find gorgeous acoustic gems that always seem to end up getting overlooked. Every now and then, they end up as singles , but the others rarely make the concert setlists and exist solely as deep cuts for hardcore fans. “Jesus is a rochdale girl,” “Weather to Fly” and “dear friends” come to mind, all dazzling, downtempo and beautiful, the kind of tracks that could soundtrack any emotional moment in a given movie or TV show.
So, if anything, it’s kind of a surprise that the band waited until almost a quarter century into their existence to write a record like, an album that leans wholly on the band’s quieter side. It sounds like the band held a competition during quarantine last year to write the prettiest songs they possibly could, ranked the 10 most beautiful ones they came up with and packaged them into a single record.
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