{"id":33290,"date":"2021-09-02T20:30:39","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T01:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=33290"},"modified":"2021-09-02T20:30:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T01:30:39","slug":"elbows-forthcoming-ninth-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=33290","title":{"rendered":"Elbow&#8217;s Forthcoming Ninth Album"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yesterday, Mancunian band elbow announced their ninth studio album, <em>Flying Dream 1<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"elbow &#039;Flying Dream 1&#039; (Trailer)\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YnB3Z0pjQv0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the announcement email from the band, the album was &#8220;written remotely in the band\u2019s home studios before coming together at the empty Brighton Theatre Royal to perfect, perform, and record the songs.&#8221;  And the teaser video captures some of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The album&#8217;s title is curious, as it evokes the song &#8220;Flying Dream 143&#8221; from the band&#8217;s sophomore album (and the first one I bought), <em>Cast of Thousands<\/em>.  There&#8217;s also a track on the album titled &#8220;The Seldom Seen Kid,&#8221; the title of their fourth album and a line from &#8220;Grounds for Divorce,&#8221; a song on that album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watching the trailer for the album yesterday morning I became emotional and teary; as I wrote on Twitter, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/allyngibson\/status\/1433065680195264517\">life is strange sometimes<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s like listening to a live version of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/allyngibson.com\/?p=32603\">Weightless<\/a>&#8221; last summer and being emotionally overwhelmed by it &#8212; between being three months into the COVID crisis, leading a reclusive life, not having seen family  or friends in close to a year, and dealing with my own health issues, the song found a perfect storm to overwhelm my emotional defenses.  So much of <em>Giants of All Sizes<\/em>, the previous album, where &#8220;Weightless&#8221; comes from, is so wrapped up for me in dealing with my partial blindness and COVID that I may never be able to separate it from those things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve not ordered <em>Flying Dream 1<\/em> yet, but I will soon.  It&#8217;s not out until November; I have ten weeks. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trailer video reminded me of a video a school made last year for elbow&#8217;s &#8220;One Day Like This,&#8221; their breakthrough song, and then I spent fifteen minutes searching for it until I hit on the right combination of words.  I can&#8217;t always do that, some things are eternally elusive, but here I did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"One Day Like This by Elbow. Exclusive new video by Chorlton High\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0doh-g0FsPM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s a <em>normalcy<\/em> to the video that feels distant and strange, both joyful and sad.  Very creative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New elbow album, coming in November.  With patience, I&#8217;ll have learned to solve my Rubik&#8217;s Revenge from memory by then, but that&#8217;s a tale for another time. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Mancunian band elbow announced their ninth studio album, Flying Dream 1. According to the announcement email from the band, the album was &#8220;written remotely in the band\u2019s home studios before coming together at the empty Brighton Theatre Royal to perfect, perform, and record the songs.&#8221; And the teaser video captures some of that. The<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=33290\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Elbow&#8217;s Forthcoming Ninth Album&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[4842,4117],"class_list":["post-33290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-covid-19","tag-elbow","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}