Seven Readers:
I have not heard an album as exciting as the Build a Rocket Boys! of the British Elbow . Yes, and I emphasize the word: exciting. Because it is a job that generates emotions: to be at an extremely talented band, the Plan to meet their own originality of genius and of being before an album lyrically and musically beautiful.
How to explain the excitement?. That's the question I try to resolve as I write these lines. How to explain a series of soundscapes that take you from thinking, happiness, melancholy to hope?. The "how" takes on new connotations when the headphones sounds powerful voice of Guy Garvey singing to these mysterious birds that seem to see everything in "The Birds " - the first track on the album - while a simple rhythm section explodes into a powerful orchestration just half the issue. The feeling is almost inexplicable, but somehow you know you're in the way of a single work. You have two choices: look to work with the fine ear of the music lover or just get the feeling that the disc is by producirte. Either path will always be different. Because if something does Elbow to Build a Rocket Boys! is that every time I hear you will be taking a completely new route.
A road that will continue to "Lippy Kids": a warning to generation who wasted his talent, he has not realized that the days of his youth are golden days in one of the most beautiful songs of the album. Carvey encourages awakening, as a whistle is heard in the background keyboard counterpoint to the incisive Craig Potter.
And then you're hooked. Perhaps trying to give answer to "how" that I posed at the outset. Perhaps it is absorbed in the contemplation sound and questions generated from the lyrics of the song.
may continue on that path hand mandolin just Mark Potter the next track, then our dream will be shattered by a chorus that suddenly emerges singing "With Love " then you will smile to find a new world of sound, one single, simple, unpretentious that found in positive love song and that is precisely what the full of grandeur. Universe which reaffirms the powerful melody of "Neat Little Rows" that comes as a spice-laden sound of a stampede in interpreting a passion that leads to unpredictable and even violent end.
Violence to be contrasted with almost folk sound of "Jesus Is A Rochdale Girl" - maybe the best track record in terms of lyrical - at a Wurlitzer organ shall have a child and melancholy air, which will be the ideal company for the then acomedida and both profound interpretation of Carvey, and solid rhythm section consisting of Pete Turner and Richard Jupp .
At that moment the disc, the "how" will not yet found an answer. Maybe even you do not care for her. Elbow will be immersed in his art. And the force will come back to power. The chameleon acquire Carvey voice again when interpreter dyes under the first epic of the album, "The Night Will Always Win." An anthem played almost "acapella" with obvious godspell dyes. Could it be that the "how" is in the perennial quest of the spiritual side of music?. I can not even respond to that. Just at the end of the track your ears will be infected by the power of a vocal performance made with the entrails, heart.
Where do we go then?, What time they entered an almost Latino metal scene?, At what point the drums take on a new dimension and a piano and some metals that may take us back to the days of Xavier Cugat , but with an air of postmodern? If all that is possible in "High Ideals " anti-war theme, and romantic anti finally.
Where are we, what part of the road? We are now ready to talk about "how." We may think so, perhaps because they understood the journey goes ... and no, there are still surprises Build The Rockets Boys!, There is still time for a second epic, for choral, full of strings, the energy of the voices that scream it's time to go home, that are willing to welcome us with open arms. " Open Arms" is one of those songs that you will not forget once you hear it. It is perfection in terms of production, instrumentation, composition and style. Elbow is at its best. And then you know: You're aware that everything and everyone here ( Everyone's here! sings Carvey spreading his arms) Yes, then one acquires this consciousness that comes after the assumption and you find yourself repeating over and again: Masterpiece, Masterpiece ...
The reprise of "The Birds " will to breathe, to take breath. If you chose the path of music lovers probably be thinking that you have not heard anything similar to Build a Rocket Boys are you with the most original this year, maybe you will not find anything that could overcome. Then come back again and again to the album, perhaps trying to draw similarities with any other band or artist, perhaps to explore new textures and atmospheres, it may get lost in its dazzling originality. If you let the other side with the sensations in the bowels feel the happiness that can only be found through good music. Invariably come back to look for new sensations, and you'll fly back from the infinite possibilities that the sentiments embodied in the staff possess.
AND Elbow members seem to be aware of what they have caused and are willing to thank you with affection that you have decided to undertake this journey with them. "Dear Friends " looks like a track dedicated to all who came with them at journey's end. Section is a happy, thanks to who has become an accomplice in an old and dear friend.
And if at first asked how explain the excitement? When the disc came to the conclusion that it is impossible. The excitement produced by the art is inexplicable, and at the end of the Build A Rocket Boys Elbow, not because it interests you and find your reason and your feelings have been touched, harmed by the sublime music. The "how" has finally ceased to be important, all that is important now is that reunion with the myriad of art and what it could have on those who undertake and complete a trip with her.
So things said Monday ...
... well ...
