Little Fictions

Pitchfork 7.1/10 Elbow's latest deepens their formula—rich, sweeping rock songs about melancholy and love—with a dreamy sense of loss and time passing.

The Line of Best Fit 8/10 Shorn of their drummer, Bury’s favourite sons return with a sharp, carefully-crafted statement of a record.

NME 4/5 Ever-reliable Mancunians serve up another album that’s as warming as the morning’s fourth whisky

The Independent 4/5 The xx, I See You

Under The Radar 8.0/10 Guy Garvey and his bandmates in Elbow are, at this point, the U.K.'s most consistent elder statesmen of "old-school" alt-rock.

Clash 6/10 elbow have not yet, it seems, been a band to bow to the pressures of mid-career megastardom. It was over a decade into their career as elbow — more

The Observer 4/5 (Polydor)

Slant 4/5 Little Fictions distinguishes itself as an Elbow album not quite like any other.

The Telegraph 4/5 Alt-J – Relaxer