This is very cool, I just found out you can get Elbow’s ‘Leaders Of The Free World’ available a week before the official release date! Its a cracking album, which I managed to get a listen to some time ago - I blogged about it here. I’m going to see them at Koko next week….I’ll be reviewing that gig here of course.

The press release says : On 12th September, elbow will release their eagerly anticipated third album, “Leaders Of The Free World”.

Elbow’s label, V2 are offering the album exclusively a week before release through TellJack. By visiting TellJack you have the opportunity to pre-order the upcoming album in digital or physical format receiving the content anything up to a week before the official release date. They have packages including free bonus material like the videos for ‘Station Approach’ and ‘Forget Myself’

They write this about the Album:

Twelve months in their very own Blueprint studio in Manchester, with a little trip to LA to mix with Tom Rothrock and some finishing off mixing with Marius De Vries in London, has produced an album that the band feel is their very best yet. With production duties shared amongst the band and an all pervading sense of their home town seeping through the tracks, this is an album that fully justifies all of the claims made on Elbow’s behalf in previous years.

Or you can read my review - which is posted here