Just a few weeks removed from Elbow’s unveiling of “The Seldom Seen Kid” as the lead single from their forthcoming ninth studio album Flying Dream 1 (due November 19th), the band have returned with another poignant preview of the record in the form of the beautifully evocative love song “Six Words.”
"I can't remember the exact genesis of the track, but it is definitely one of Craig (Potter)’s,” Guy Garvey reflects in an official statement. “In some ways it's familiar territory lyrically, it has similar sentiments to 'Mirrorball' but it draws heavily on my teenage years: the bottle green in the song is the colour of my school uniform and the six lanes is the traffic on the road to school in Prestwich. Though that six lanes line was something I originally wrote back in the early Elbow days when I sat in The Cornerhouse people watching, so it's a double reminisce and a return to my love of writing about love.”
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“We realized we were making a record free of the usual creative guidelines,” Garvey says of Flying Dream 1. “We love patient, quiet, whole albums like the last Talk Talk records. John Martyn’s Solid Air and Bless the Weather, PJ Harvey’s Is This Desire?, Chet Baker Sings, the Blue Nile’s Hats, Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love & Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks. We’ve always written songs like this, but it felt natural to make an album that focuses on the gentler side of our music. There have been challenges, but through them writing together remotely was a lifeline. It’s bruised and wistful, nostalgic, and thankful. We’re so lucky that all our family and friends are safe. It’s about that love.”
Watch the official video for “Six Words” and the Flying Dream 1 album trailer for below.
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