Ever-reliable Mancunians serve up another album that’s as warming as the morning’s fourth whisky
It's unfortunate that the cover art for Elbow’s seventh album reflects the cartoonish sci-fi aesthetic of 2016 video game No Man’s Sky, a near-endless virtual universe of 18 quintillion planets that many gamers found to be a repetitive and dreary façade of stratospheric enormity. Some feel the same way about Elbow and, lacking any glorious unifying anthems like ‘One Day Like This’ and, um, all of Elbow’s other glorious unifying anthems, they won’t find anything to change their minds in ‘Little Fictions’. a stylistic handbrake turn this is not; they’re still Doves with narcolepsy.
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