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Dead in the Boot
Product Details
- Audio CD (November 19, 2012)
- Original Release Date: 2012
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: XENON
- Product Code: B009A87Z5G
- In-Print Editions:Audio CD
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For long term Elbow watchers the announcement that Dead In The Boot is finally due for release on September 4th will be very good news indeed. It's the first release following Elbow's highly-visible performance at the closing ceremonies of the 2012 Olympics. Elbow also contributed the specially commissioned First Steps to the London games.
First talked about around the time of the release of the band s debut album Asleep in the Back, Dead In The Boot brings together B-sides and the odd non-album track from the band's thirteen year recording career.
The early years are represented by None One from the original Newborn EP released by Uglyman Records in 2000 and Lucky With Disease from 2001. The band's most recent work is showcased by Buffalo Ghosts the B-side to the limited edition 10 inch vinyl release of Open Arms last April.
In addition there are ten further tracks that demonstrate the depth of Elbow's songwriting, comprising heart wrenching ballads, loping steel guitar ornamented grooves.
Mostly self-produced, recording B-sides throughout the years allowed the band to hone their studio skills which eventually led Elbow keyboard player Craig Potter to fully produce and mix the bands last two albums. It may be categorized as a B-sides album but Dead In The Boot stands shoulder to shoulder with every other Elbow album released.
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When a band releases its "Best Of B-Sides" record, that's usually an ominous cue that they might be running out of ideas. And yes, I know that on the last tour, Elbow did like a 5-song ballad break in the middle of every set while the band sat around a table and drank whiskey in celebration of their 20th anniversary together as Guy Garvey serenaded them. There's just one problem with the stereotype: this is actually a terrific album that might be better than one or two of their studio albums. Obviously, it being a B-side collection, there's no lead single here, but so what? There wasn't one on their last record either. Instead you get 13 moody meditations on everything from the price of phone sex to the War On Terror.The reason this record is so good is because Elbow cranks out two or three of these murky, whiskey-and-cigarette infused distorted discontented grumbling drifters for every one of their stadium stompers, and so a ton of gems get left on the cutting room floor for every session. To wit, with their most recent album Build A Rocket Boys!, the lovely little tune Buffalo Ghosts got B-sided while the mail-it-in With Love went on the record. Problem solved: Buffalo Ghosts is here. And don't get me started on the gorgeous EP-that-never-happened that the Leaders Of The Free World sessions produced. Suffice to say that that album's title track, a political stomper that the band still plays at shows, wasn't even the best War On Terror song. That's here, it's called The Long War Shuffle, it'll never get 10,000 people clapping in unison, but it's terrific and even now is more politically salient than 90% of the contents of Newsweek Magazine.For American fans of this band, their B-sides have been almost impossible to get up to now by any legal means. Hard core fans know that some of the best numbers still didn't make the cut (can we now get a Dead In The Boot B-Sides with Vum Garda, Brave New Shave, The Crow, Wurzel, the acoustic About Time, Puckfair, Suffer, Stumble, Live On My Mind, The Drunken Engineer, Strangeways, Hotel Istanbul, Kisses, the August And September cover and about four others please?) but this is an overdue remedy.
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