Description
Elbow’s warm, familiar themes of optimism, love and a sort of fatherly concern for how the rest of the world is behaving are continued in their seventh studio album; their first since 2014’s The Take Off and Landing of Everything.
In a career spanning more than two decades, Elbow have always taken things at their own pace, and this shows in Little Fictions’ pleasing rhythms. The band allow for a sparseness in many of the songs compared to the grand, elaborate details featured in past albums; there’s a cyclical feel to this album that heralds a return to basics (although they couldn’t resist throwing in some cinematic strings for the uplifting “Magnificent (She Says)”.
