build a rocket boys!

The new album, 'build a rocket boys!', will be released on March 7th.

1. Lippy Kids
2. The Birds
3. With Love
4. Neat Little Rows
5. Jesus Is A Rochdale Girl
6. The Night Will Always Win
7. High Ideals
8. The River
9. Open Arms
10. The Birds (Reprise)
11. Dear Friend

Brilliant. Released on my little lad's birthday - and he is already a Lippy Kid!

7th March - it feels such a loooong way away.

Ta for the info!

Brilliant!! Thanks MY

Cheers for the news MY. Here is a link on Play

http://www.play.com/Search.html?searchstring=elbow+build+&searchtype=allproducts&searchsource=0

Fantastic, thanks again Misspelt!

Hmmm, wonder if track 8 is the Joni Mitchell song covered?

mrswoman wrote:

Hmmm, wonder if track 8 is the Joni Mitchell song covered?

I would LOVE that!

Can't imagine it will be though.

Best news i've heard in quite a while

Thanks, Misspelt Yoof! Great news! Now I'll try to sleep and wake up only on the 7th March.

So excited!!!!

I'm less convinced by the artwork!

Oh yeahh .

Bad cover, but...the main thing is the music!

Right on my birthday. Go figure.

Fantastic news, only just heard about it !!

Well, I like the artwork.

ticky wrote:

Well, I like the artwork.

Hear, hear Tickster - so do I ! Less is more.....

I wonder if Oliver did it again? I like it too.


haha the forum cracks a mention here:

Elbow's Guy Garvey Announces New Album Title, Release Date
Posted 12-21-10 by
Tags: Elbow, Guy Garvey
According to Elbow's frontman Guy Garvey, in an interview on BBC 6 Music on Tuesday, and on Elbow's own forum on their website, the Mercury Prize-winning band's next album will be called Build A Rocket Boys!. It will be released on March 7 in the UK (and likely March 8 in the States). And there's even a tracklisting making the rounds.
http://thealternateside.org/artist/guy_garvey

LongLegs wrote:

I wonder if Oliver did it again? I like it too.

Yep. I like the artwork. Certainly looks like Oliver's style to me.

Yes and so they should
I do recall MT trying to get it up there for awhile?
But maybe I'm making that up...

mrswoman wrote:

Hmmm, wonder if track 8 is the Joni Mitchell song covered?

Probably not, as Elbow have a 'the' just as they have a 'the' for Birds song which could also be a cover


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Birds/dp/B002C7TW44


link to original album 'birds' came from http://www.amazon.co.uk/Grim/dp/B001QU2APQ/ref=sr_shvl_album_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1293025720&sr=301-2



Where has the tracklisting come from? Promos or leak?

LongLegs wrote:

Yes and so they should
I do recall MT trying to get it up there for awhile?
But maybe I'm making that up...

No your not, when Elbow had the website for 'Cast..' or' Leaders...' and Powderblue was the elbow fan forum,
that had a link in the Official Elbow website too.

Honest opinion...I think the sleeve is so minimilistic it is verging on banal, and that same light background as before gets so grubby and dogeared so quickly.
Maybe the inside illustrations will be interesting?
Will it be the same as TSSK so that people who buy the album are paying £3 more for just a couple more of Oliver's cartoons, but the same CD? or is there a DVD or extra tracks for digipack?
Elbow digipacks of new albums used to have a DVD with them.

I do like the final choice of title....lots of scope for interpretation with music and art there.

They've announced that there will be a surprise on Boxing Day! Lets hope we get to hear a track or two.

Guy Garvey said of the album: "I didn't know whether it was good or not for a couple of weeks, but I'm very happy with it now."

Garvey said that the band's new material had been written with the tour's venues firmly in mind. "It's impossible not to consider where you're going to play your music live when you write it," he said. "We very arrogantly assumed we were going to be playing arenas very early on."

NME

Dano wrote:

Guy Garvey said of the album: "I didn't know whether it was good or not for a couple of weeks, but I'm very happy with it now."

Garvey said that the band's new material had been written with the tour's venues firmly in mind. "It's impossible not to consider where you're going to play your music live when you write it," he said. "We very arrogantly assumed we were going to be playing arenas very early on."

NME

err... why does that make me apprehensive? :-/