Now That They’ve Won Over The Critics, Elbow Are Ready To Appeal To The Kids

Dan Gibson | September 23, 2008 2:00 am

Recent Mercury Prize winners Elbow might be taking an odd career turn with their next release, a childrens’ album, but don’t worry: It’s a kids’ album that takes the genre quite seriously. “We initially thought that it would be great to make music for children because the lads in the band have got kids and they were saying how little really decent music for children there is,” said singer Guy Garvey, who added, “you can go somewhere in writing for children that you can’t do with adults.” This would be the first full-length aimed at children from a Mercury Prize winner, although 2004 recipients Franz Ferdinand had a track on the compilation Colours Are Brighter. I would comment further, but I’m a little afraid of how what I might say will be construed by the band’s deeply passionate and massive US fanbase. [Billboard]