Elbow Announce New Album, Share New Song 'Lovers' Leap'

Elbow Announce New album, Share New Song 'Lovers' Leap'

AUDIO VERTIGO Out March 22 via Polydor/Geffen

January 25, 2024

By Mark Redfern

Photo by Athena Karamitsou

Elbow have announced a new album, AUDIO VERTIGOand shared his first single, “Lovers' Leap.” AUDIO VERTIGO will be released on March 22 via Polydor/Geffen. Check out “Lovers' Leap” below, followed by the tracklist and album art.

In a press release, frontman Guy Garvey says that Lovers' Leap is designed “not to trouble but to distract from the bad things going on in the world. We found dark, gritty grooves playing in the back rooms and these they brought back some dark memories and plenty of humor.”

The genesis of the song began with bassist Pete Turner and drummer Al Reeves working together and many of his songs AUDIO VERTIGO were born of Elbow members working in smaller groups, before the full band finished the songs.

AUDIO VERTIGO is the sequel to 2021 Flying Dream 1 and unlike that more familiar album, the new record embraces a more varied and rhythmically diverse musical landscape, or as Garvey puts it, “cool, noisy grooves made by us playing together in garages.”

The band recorded the album throughout 2023 at the members' individual studios, Migration Studios in Gloucestershire and the band's premises at Blueprint Studios in Salford (in Greater Manchester).

Elbow's previous album was from 2019 Giants of all sizes (read our rave review of the album).

Read our 2017 interview with Elbow's Guy Garvey Short fictions.

Also read our 2014 Elbow print article and our exclusive 2014 online interview with Garvey about his favorite cities. Also, read our 2016 The End interview with Garvey about the end and death.

Garvey was also one of the artists on the cover of our 20th anniversary issue.

AUDIO VERTIGO Track List:

1. Things I've been telling myself for years
2. Lovers oil
3. (Where is it?)
4. Ballou
5. Very Heaven
6. She on Earth
7. The image
8. Poker Face
9. Knife wrestling
10. Embers of Day
11. Good Blood Mexico City
12. From the River

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