Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid (2008)

Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid (2008)

Tracklist front / back album covers download

1. "Starlings"   5:05

2. "The Bones of You" (contains elements of "Summertime" by George Gershwin, Dubose Heyward, Dorothy Heyward & Ira Gershwin)   4:49

3. "Mirrorball"   5:50

4. "Grounds for Divorce"   3:39

5. "An Audience with the Pope"   4:27

6. "Weather to Fly"   4:29

7. "The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver"   5:14

8. "The Fix" (Elbow, Richard Hawley)   4:27

9. "Some Riot"   5:23

10. "One Day Like This" 6:34

11. "Friend of Ours"   4:38

12. "We're Away" (UK bonus track)   1:59

On the UK version of the album, there are 23 seconds of silence after "Friend of Ours" before "We're Away" begins, making its running time 5:01.

 

Elbow Band Members / Musicians

Guy Garvey – vocals, string and brass arrangements

Mark Potter – guitars

Craig Potter – keyboards, trumpet

Pete Turner – bass

Richard Jupp – drums

Richard Hawley – vocals, lead guitar on "The Fix"

Ian Burdge – cello, backing vocals

Prabjote Osahn – violin, backing vocals

Stella Page – violin, viola, backing vocals

Ben Parsons – cornet

Nick Smart – cornet, flugel

Matt Ball – trombone

Sheona White – E-flat horn

Tim Barber – trumpet

Elbow Choir – backing vocals

Angela Thwaite – backing vocals

Louise Turner – backing vocals

Craig Potter – production, mixing

Danny Evans – additional engineering on "Grounds for Divorce" and "Friend of Ours"

Danny McTague – additional engineering on "One Day Like This"

Tim Young – mastering

Mazen Murad – mastering on "We're Away"

Oliver East – artwork

Red Design – design

The Seldom Seen Kid is the 4th studio album by English rock band Elbow. It was released by Fiction Records on 17 March 2008 in the United Kingdom and was released by Geffen Records on 22 April 2008 in the United States. The album debuted at number five on the UK Albums Chart and won the Mercury Prize in 2008.