Like past Elbow records, Flying Dream 1’s most serene moments come from Garvey’s musing about the little, almost forgettable moments where love lives.
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These types of songs have always been lurking in the background of each Elbow record, but they finally decided to make it a full album’s sonic mission statement. It sounds like the band held a competition during quarantine last year to write the prettiest songs they possibly could, ranked the 10 most beautiful ones they came up with and packaged them into a single record. So, if anything, it’s kind of a surprise that the band waited until almost a quarter century into their existence to write a record like Flying Dream 1, an album that leans wholly on the band’s quieter side. That’s long been the secret to Elbow’s growing discography: Beneath all the massive-sounding singles, their best work lies in the brilliant acoustic and piano-backed tracks that strip away their music to its barest bones.
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“Jesus is a rochdale girl,” “Weather to Fly” and “dear friends” come to mind, all dazzling, downtempo and beautiful, the kind of tracks that could soundtrack any emotional moment in a given movie or TV show. Every now and then, they end up as singles (“Lippy Kids” from build a rocket boys!, for instance), but the others rarely make the concert setlists and exist solely as deep cuts for hardcore fans. It’s their calling card, and their claim to fame.īut dig deeper on every Elbow album and you’ll find gorgeous acoustic gems that always seem to end up getting overlooked. Be it 2014’s hopeful “New York Morning,” 2011’s inviting “Open Arms” or even 2019’s muddy, bluesy “Dexter & Sinister,” which recalls the dirty guitar line on 2008’s “Grounds for Divorce” that routinely gets sung back to the band by the crowd, these anthemic tracks are Guy Garvey and company’s bread and butter. and you’ll get it: Hearing tens of thousands of people singing “It’s all gonna be magnificent” from Little Fiction’s “Magnificent (She Says),” or “So throw those curtains wide” from The Seldom Seen Kid’s “One Day Like This,” makes you think, well, “one day like this a year will see me right.”Įach of the Mancunian band’s eight previous albums all feature at least one song (and typically many more) with a soaring chorus that aims for the last row in the arena or the stragglers at the back of the festival crowd. Few bands this side of Noel Gallagher can write cathartic, hands-in-the-air-inducing songs like Elbow can.
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