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| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Ribcage | |||
| 2. Fallen Angel | |||
| 3. Fugitive Motel | |||
| 4. Snooks (Progress Report) | |||
| 5. Switching Off | |||
| 6. Not A Job | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Cast of Thousands (live intro) | |||
| 2. Ribcage - (live from Ancienne Belgique, Brussels) | |||
| 3. Fallen Angel - (live from Ancienne Belgique, Brussels) | |||
| 4. Fugitive Motel - (live from Ancienne Belgique, Brussels) | |||
| 5. Snooks (Progress Report) - (live from Ancienne Belgique, Brussels) | |||
| 6. I've Got Your Number - (live from Ancienne Belgique, Brussels) | |||
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| Disc: 3 | |||
| 1. Ribcage | |||
| 2. Fallen Angel | |||
| 3. Fugitive Mote | |||
| 4. Snooks (Progress Report) | |||
| 5. Switching Off | |||
| 6. Not A Job | |||
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It sounds a bit more polished than Asleep but is just as moving and it's a bit more psychedelic but just as powerful. Although Elbow sounds relatively familiar, they have a fairly timeless sound, not borrowing too heavily from any one decade's influences. While the first album tended to have a few more all out rock moments, Cast Of Thousands sees Garvey and company matured to a more composed and collected form. Their power lies in their simplicity...but it's pretty much pointless to try to fully explain the movement of Elbow. Their work just needs to be felt. Imagine that! Feelings still exist some 20 years after Satan launched his own channel, MTV. In the words of the Glastonbury 2002 crown at the end of "Grace Under Pressure," an amazingly moving song, "we still believe in love so f**k you!"
With a similer feel to Placebo, Radiohead and Pink Floyd, Elbow are definitely going to be worth keeping an eye on.
There are so many different sounds to this album that nobody can listen to it just the once and come up with a sure verdict. In fact, it took me quite a while to warm to the variations of sound within each song.
The key with this album is to not immediately pay attention to the lyrics, but to the different emotions that are created in extremly interesting and inventive ways. For example, "Fugitive Motel" - (My personal favourite) starts off with a feel that's almost hawaiian. The dog barks, the waves crash on the shore and a wonderful "twangy" sound is created. This mood is changed abruptly when the singing starts. His melodic voice never fails to send shivers up and down my spine.
Once you have listened to the whole album a number of times, then you can look at the lyrics. Again, going back to "Fugitive Motel", the lyrics are heartbreaking: "I'm tired I said, You always look tired, she said. I'm admired, I said. You always look tired, she said." How simple is that, and yet it never fails to break my heart.
To listen to this album, I think that you either need to be extremly chilled out or depressed. Works both ways for me.
If you don't give this album its deserved second listen to, then you're the one missing out on some extremly touching, artistic music.
Their debut album, Asleep at the Back was definately an album to play late at night when you want to get your emotion on. Powder Blue and Newborn were made to pull on those little heart strings that we all seem to possess deep down. It was an album full of epic, emotion driven songs that we all fell in love with.
Cast of Thousands is more subtle. For those of you who have bought it on the back of Fallen Angel or Asleep at the back (album), played it once, and shelved it to the 'will never play again unless i'm dead bored' part of your CD collection, believe me, you are missing out on a gem.
It is an album that has to be played 7 or 8 times before you can even start to comprehend it's magic. OK, it has its catchy tunes like the 'Fallen Angel' and 'Buttons and Zips' (There is almost a 'The Chicken or the Egg' paradox behind the chorus "Will I ever get this song off my lips, thats what you said"), but after a few more plays, you start to get hooked on songs like 'Fugative Motel' and 'Not a Job', and realise this is probably the best stuff you've heard since OK computer was around.
'Switching Off' is this albums Newborn, the almost naked voice of Guy Garvey has never sounded as good. This guy really means what he's singing, it obvious isn't it? It's coming from his soul. You don't hear that sort of emotion in voices coming out of the kids on the millions of manufactured bands we seemed to be bludgeoned with.
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