Grounds For Divorce/ A Regret, by Elbow (7" on Polydor)

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Rating: unmoved This record left our BRIAN D feeling unmoved.

Elbow have found the blues. No, really. No fucking joke. Oh no. This is just silly. They've been listening to White Stripes & Desert Sessions or summat. But Guy Garvey still sounds like a heartbroken Mancunian deadbeat fumbling for change to get on the deserted night bus home. 'Grounds for Divorce' sounds like a weak version of a weak revivalist band, all twanging blues licks, textbook clap alonga-beat & "woo-hoo" ad libs. If they rock it up they may just turn into Blues hammer, y'all. See here. Don't mean to kick them down but i feel this change of direction is either gonna propel them to huge stadium shagging fame or kill them off for good. What happened to your own distinctive sound you media whores?? on 2x7"/CDs thru Fiction. Shame there ain't no romance.

What the label says:

Fiction Records are very proud to announce that Elbow are now one of the family.

The first single is ‘Grounds For Divorce’ (out March 10th) from their fourth studio album, ‘The Seldom Seen Kid’ (out March 17th), is a welcome return from the band, driven by a thunderous riff that reminds listeners of Elbow’s love of the heavy as well as the delicate.

‘Grounds For Divorce’ lyrically is affected and inspired by loss. The single is about the initial aftermath, the desire to flee the situation, find another life and wipe the slate clean of all the emotional entanglements that come with the death of a close friend. It also rocks.