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Build a Rocket Boys ReviewEverything you need to know about Build A Rocket Boys! you can gleam from the first two songs. The 8-minute opener, The Birds, is the longest the band has done, building slowly with pulsing guitar notes before opening up with bleep-blip Peter Gabriel synthesizers and, finally, a full-on orchestral explosion. The follow-up, Lippy Kids was the first taste of this album that Elbow gave us back around holiday time, and for good reason: musically and emotionally, it's the heart of the record, with Guy Garvey doing his lyrical magic on themes of childhood and memory over a gentle choir and piano backdrop. Every subsequent track takes its cue from these two.
It's no surprise to learn that keyboardist Craig Potter helmed production duties again. The lush, warm arrangements recall the band's last record, The Seldom Seen Kid, and little keyboard and synth touches can be found in all sorts of nooks and crannies. More than previous Elbow outings, this one has an electro/minimalist edge, with whole songs built around a looped single piano note (Lippy Kids, The Night Will Always Win) or sustained, vibrating drones and chords. There's even a 3-note video game square-sine synth behind Open Arms (which, by the way, is a rollicking pub sing-a-long and not, thankfully, a Journey cover). Has Potter been listening to Radiohead, or to Terry Riley? Either way, it lets the band keep its sound while keeping things fresh, and it's more subtle color than in your face experimentation. It would be interesting to see what would happen if Brian Eno produced the next record.
Build A Rocket Boys! isn't perfect. Some of the songs seem without anchor. In fact, so does the album; it lacks a true lead single. Neat Little Rows feels a bit out of place, as if they felt they had to put in an anthemic stomper just to make the record easier to tour. Also, With Love probably should've been a b-side. On the other hand, they've made room for a simple strummed acoustic guitar number, Jesus Is A Rochdale Girl, that probably would've been a b-side on previous Elbow records, and it's a welcome addition.
Ultimately, the reason this album succeeds is the same as their previous four; the tension between a band that wants you to sing to the rafters with them and a band that wants to quietly break your heart. Elbow can still do both, sometimes in the same song.
Over five albums, Guy Garvey's lyrical themes have moved from youthful urban discontent to pub gossip to love and heartbreak to domesticity and childrearing, and now he's looking back towards his own childhood with reminiscence. At this rate, we can anticipate that the band's seventh or eighth record will be a meditation on retirement and the British health care system, but if anyone can do it with aplomb, it's Garvey. This is a band that knows how to age gracefully.
Standout tracks: The Birds, Lippy Kids, Jesus Is A Rochdale Girl, High IdealsBuild a Rocket Boys Overview

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