Giants of All Sizes
It must be thanks to One Day Like This, by far their biggest hit, that Elbow have ended up with such a cuddly reputation. Life-affirming though many of their anthems are, it doesn’t do the long-running band justice. An early line, from Newborn in 2001, springs to mind: “I’ll be the corpse in your bathtub.”
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"Loss is a part of a life this long" sings Elbow frontman Guy Garvey on "Dexter & Sinister," the sanguine opening cut on the venerable post-Brit-pop group's eighth full-length effort Giants of All Sizes.
A record defined by its darkness, Elbow's eighth album Giants of All Sizes is gritty, graceful and vital
History has shown that Elbow records can be tough nuts to crack and the band's eighth studio album, Giants of All Sizes, is no exception.
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You know we must be living through troubled times if even Guy Garvey is feeling beaten down.