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Elbow Lippy Kids The first track to emerge from Elbow's upcoming fifth album via a live studio video posted on their website is a typically bruised and beautiful spine-tingler.

F&M playlist 2011

They play one of only three songs tonight from Elbow's pre-Mercury days, 2005's "Puncture Repair", a song about leaning on a friend who "patches you up", and the rest of the band join them soon after.

Elbow – review 2011

Led by singer- songwriter Guy Garvey, Elbow's seven-song, 50-minute set went by in a satisfying flash, the music propelled by warm professionalism.

Coachella Highlights a New Era of Music Jim Fusilli 2011

Elbow's "The Seldom Seen Kid" is on my playlist at the moment.

Musician Nick Ingman Enjoys Quiet Village Life Javier Espinoza 2011

Even in Elbow's softer songs, however, these shadows linger darkly, most impressively tonight in "The Loneliness of the Tower Crane Driver" – the song Elbow campaigned to play at the 2008 Mercury prize ceremony, a song about the crushed dreams of a manual worker, rather than one of their album's more conventional ballads.

Elbow – review 2011

They joined DJs including Lauren Laverne, Jarvis Cocker and Elbow's Guy Garvey on 6 Music, which has gone from digital flop to a cornerstone of the BBC's radio strategy in less than 12 months.

Bob Shennan: 'Entertainment is not a dirty word' 2011

Will Elbow's new album title reclaim grammar's least-loved piece of punctuation from Facebook commenters and literary snobs?

From Help! to Build A Rocket Boys!, exclamation marks rock! 2011

The Unthanks are just as devoted to musical atmospheres as they are to unadorned folk storytelling – one reason why, perhaps, in 2008 they came close to being the first folk band to win the Mercury music prize when their second album, The Bairns, finished runner-up to Elbow's The Seldom Seen Kid.

The Unthanks 2010

Elbow's new album working title: Lippy Kid is nigh; thanks to download culture, it may be Elbow's last full-length, according to Guy Garvey.

Winter Arts Calendar 2010

The title "Not a Job," from Elbow's 2004 release Cast of Thousands, is dripping with bittersweetness.

Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Fifty-Four 2009