Elbow Hope to Release New Album by End of 2010

Posted on Jan 14th 2010 8:10AM by Johnny Dee
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Elbow have confirmed that they are in the studio recording the follow-up to their much acclaimed Mercury Music Prize- winning album 'The Seldom Seen Kid.'

Speaking last year singer Guy Garvey had hinted that the Bury band's fifth album would see them take a radical shift into a more psychedelic, shoegaze sound.

But speaking to NME.com drummer Richard Jupp has said that the album is unlikely to sound so radically different. "Let's just say [Guy's comments were] inaccurate, he said. "It's at an experimental stage. We're loving being back in the studio, it's really exciting. We're just ploughing through it now."

"Were rabid for it," he said about the recording sessions which began just before Christmas. "The last one was astronomical for us. Using that springboard I'd love to get the album finished and get it out on the road [before 2010 ends]."

When the band began recording 'The Seldom Seen Kid' they didn't have a record label. Now, after 18 months of touring and one of the best selling albums of the past two years, things are a little different.

Speaking at the launch of Sudan365 -- a drums for peace initiative founded by Faithless drummer Jamie Catto -- Jupp said, "We know what pressure is, the only real pressure comes from ourselves, to create. Thankfully our record label are aware of that and respect that."

Meanwhile, rumours have already began circulating that Elbow will shortly be announced among the headline acts at this year's Glastonbury Festival.