Music Review: Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid - Page 2

If there's any change from previous albums to this one, it's a tendency toward an overall happier tone. It's not overly smiley, but perhaps just content. The slower tracks are more peaceful, the faster ones more up, and overall the lyrics find the group in a mostly positive headspace.

The entire album is solid from start to finish, and delivers some of the best and catchiest songs of their career. It has the immediacy of Cast of Thousands mixed with some of the experimentation of the band's debut. It might be a bit presumptuous to think that this will be the album when Elbow finally get their due. But if not, it won't be for lack of quality material. The Seldom Seen Kid showcases the group at the height of their powers, and hopefully they will hover just near enough to the radar to be with us for several more albums to come.

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