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Elbow - The Take Off And Landing Of Everything (2014)
 FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time - 57:14 minutes | 1,32 GB
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 Manchester alternative band that layers socially relevant lyrics, steeped in the British experience, over atmospheric, epic rock. The making of The Take Off and Landing of Everything saw the band take a new approach to writing and recording. Previously songs were mostly developed by the band as a whole, but this new album sees individual members and sub-groups take the lead on several tracks.


 Elbow recorded their sixth album at Real World Studios, making the connection between themselves and Peter Gabriel plain. Much of this connection comes from the husky, subdued rasp of lead singer Guy Garvey, but the band on a whole favors a similar kind of accessible art rock where the textures are lucid yet elliptical while the songs are sturdy and melodic, wearing their accouterments well. This blend helped make 2011's Build a Rocket Boys! into a sizable hit in their native Britain and throughout Europe, but The Take Off and Landing of Everything is better still, demonstrating that the band knows how to seize the spoils of success. This assurance -- relaxed and deliberate, confident enough to play up both melodies and cool, echoing abstractions in the production -- belies how much of the album was written in the wake of the dissolution of Garvey's long-term romantic relationship, but The Take Off isn't strictly a breakup album. Rather, it's a record of coming to term with middle age, finding that there is a birth that accompanies every death, joy to balance the sorrow, an understanding that comes with acceptance. Garvey conveys these issues in his lyrics but, as a band, Elbow reflect this comfortable reckoning with their own nature, letting sadness creep at the edges but favoring a warm, enveloping melancholy that turns the album into a soundtrack for healing, not wallowing.  


Tracklist:

 01 - This Blue World
 02 - Charge
 03 - Fly Boy Blue / Lunette
 04 - New York Morning
 05 - Real Life (Angel)
 06 - Honey Sun
 07 - My Sad Captains
 08 - Colour Fields
 09 - The Take Off and Landing of Everything
 10 - The Blanket of Night

 Recorded in Real World Studios and at Blueprint Studios in Salford, England.

Musicians:
 Guy Garvey - Vocals, Guitar
 Mark Potter - Guitar, Backup Vocals
 Craig Potter - Keyboards, Piano
 Richard Jupp - Drums, Percussion
 Pete Turner - Bass Guitar, Backup Vocals

Additional Personnel:
 Hallé Orchestra - Ensemble
 Pete McPhail - Saxophone
 Tim Barber - Trumpet
 Kat Curlett - Trumpet
 Bob Marsh - Flugelhorn


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