Well for me, that’s probably done and dusted – my end of year Number One album for 2008 is released this month. The Seldom Seen Kid is about as good a piece of music that you will hear for a while.
I read somewhere that this album was originally going to be called Ustinov (for Peter Ustinov), which would have been fitting as he was a super story teller as well – they recreate some of that on this fantastic album.
This is the 4th album from Manchester based Elbow, with singer Guy Garvey leading the line with usual Northern bonhomie. Listen to his BBC sixmusic show for an idea of his sense of humor, it shines through on the opening track:
How dare the premier, ignore my invitations. He’ll have to go.
And from there it just gets better and better, no fillers on the album – all beautifully written with wonderful, loving lyrics with dark moments scattered amongst them. It’s fantastically played, just the right amount of invention and well produced by keyboard player Craig Potter.
Click ‘more’ for a full track by track recap – but honestly, just buy this – you’ll bloody love it!
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By: mattr
Category: music
They’ve done it again – after ‘Yes We Can’ another host of celebrities have stepped up to the mark and contributed to a very cool Obama campaign video…
I don’t know all of the faces in there, but I recognise the Black Eye Peas, Jessica Alba, George Lopez and I think Forrest Whitaker towards the end.
I’m reading ‘The Audacity of Hope’ at the moment, and I think that now after reading that and watching the guy speak – I’d probably cast my vote for Barack Obama.
This is an excellent idea from Photojojo – the flickr time capsule – you sign up and allow the photojojo site to access your flickr stream, and twice a month it sends you one of your own flickr pictures from the same time last year.
I took this picture just over a year ago at the Willows Lodge Hotel near Seattle whilst at a team meeting.
Its absolutely simple to set up – just allow your flickr account to be accessed and then enter any mail address and you’re done, it takes less than a minute to do. A moment later a mail arrives confirming you are all set up. Once you have the time capsule running, you’ll get constant reminders of the photos you took one year ago, the more pictures you take the better the reminders – so it even gives you an excuse to take more photos.
The Flickr Time Capsule from Photojojo is here – sign up today for great memories.
Well for me, that’s probably done and dusted – my end of year Number One album for 2008 is released this month. The Seldom Seen Kid is about as good a piece of music that you will hear for a while.
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