On 2008's "The Seldom Seen Kid", a solemn Guy Garvey sings 'love you, mate', on "Friend of Ours" - a heart-rending tribute to his late friend, Bryan Glancy. "One Day Like This" reminds us how love can ...

The irony isn’t lost on Guy Garvey that he had to get good and drunk to write a song called “Sober.” “Isn’t it perverse?” he says with a chuckle. The Manchester band first came up with the track’s ...

Music critics in the United Kingdom have chosen Elbow's "The Seldom Seen Kid" as the best album of 2008, according to an aggregate poll of polls. Elbow was a popular choice for the winner of the ...

Elbow are a fairly recent revelation for me personally. When they came through KCRW's performance studio a couple years ago in support of their Mercury Prize winning The Seldom Seen Kid, they ...