Elbow

Many thanks.....I'll check them out

My son says that I should listen to 'Elbow', as they are progressive rock, similar to the early Moody Blues albums.....piano/mellotron? I do love the piano/keyboard influence in a song!!

I don't think i've heard of these guys until recently because of this thread, then yesterday in the Toronto Sun newspaper the music reviewer there did one on Elbow's latest and described them as "...Genesis loving Brits who do it with their usual mix of intelligent insight, mature wistfulness and majestic craftmanship on their sixth studio release."

What are you doing up at this time of the morning? - go to bed, it's 3am!  

yam yam wrote: After being suggested five times (there was actually a later thread than this, but it was locked by admins) they are finally being given a shot in Crossover: http://progfreak.com/Elbow-107475.html?path=pa/recent.

You could say they're finally elbowing their way in here...

Thank you folks, I'll be here all week.  Try the veal.

HOH AH!!!! Elbow!!! I like them a lot, not sure if it is prog or not but they have a song that grabbed, skippy something... uhm.. arghh... ha wait it's called Lippy Kids!! Yes that's it! Plus I am a sucker for piano background tunes. To me this is an incredible ballad which I can replay all the time without getting bored, however this specific track in my opinion is not innovative to be considered prog to be honest (this is only one song, I do not know the rest of the album tho'). Awww but I love this song so much!    

Bonnek wrote: Why can't "indie" simply be called "indie" anymore these days Sorry but Prog is not the only type of music that can lay a claim on creative experimental rock music.

Elbow so belong here.  Tracks like "Newborn", "The Birds", "The Stops", "I've Got Your Number" and "Grace Under Pressure"...it's definitely prog.  The fact they avoid solos in favour of songcraft not unlike Procol Harum is progressive in itself and who cares about "length" of songs?  Just because a band writes a 20 minute so-called "epic" these days doesn't necessarily mean it's a good thing.  I can think of countless bands that I reviewed here where I've docked a full mark by said band dropping a turd on their album in the guise of an "epic".  They will remain nameless because I do not care to be badgered by Steven Wilson.

Edited by Gooner - March 12 2013 at 23:54

Perhaps Elbow should be considered (mainly) 'beige' (adult contemporary) Prog   .Recent Pink Floyd sounds a bit beige to me even.It seems to drift along in it's ambient progressive way.Perhaps alot of Peter Gabriels solo stuff.Alot of 'so called' Indie has gone beige these days - lacks dynamic range - a very important part of good progressive music generally.

Their sound does strongly resembles that of classic rock. I only know the latest album, but the organs and mellotrons there are quite outstanding.

Maybe they could stand a chance for Prog-Related.