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elbow Release 'AUDIO VERTIGO ECHO elbow EP5’ Today. North American Tour Starts September 26

ELBOW RELEASE ‘AUDIO VERTIGO ECHO elbow EP5’ TODAY NORTH AMERICAN TOUR BEGINS THIS FALL

LISTEN | CD/VINYL ‘AUDIO VERTIGO ECHO elbow EP5’ 1. Dis-Graceland 463-465 Bury New Road 2. Adriana Again 3. Timber 4. Sober NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES 09/26 – 9:30 Club – Washington, DC 09/27 – Brooklyn Bowl Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA  09/28 – Electric City –Buffalo, NY   09/29 – Brooklyn Steel – Brooklyn, NY 09/30 - Brooklyn Steel – Brooklyn, NY 10/02 – Roadrunner – Boston, MA 10/03 – MTELUS – Montreal, QC 10/04 – HISTORY – Toronto, ON 10/05 – Royal Oak Music Theatre – Royal Oak, MI  10/06 – The Riviera Theatre – Chicago, IL 10/07 – First Avenue – Main Room – Minneapolis, MN 10/09 – Summit – Denver, CO 10/10 – The Union Event Center – Salt Lake City, UT 10/12 – The Showbox – Seattle, WA  10/13 – Revolution Hall – Portland, OR 10/15 – Fox Theater – Oakland, CA 10/16 – The Wiltern – Los Angeles, CA Ahead of their North American headline tour starting on September 26, elbow release their full ‘AUDIO VERTIGO ECHO elbow EP5’ across all streaming services alongside CD and 12” vinyl releases, including a limited red vinyl version.   The band’s fifth EP was written as a continuation of their fourth UK Number 1 album ‘AUDIO VERTIGO,’ released in March of last year.   ‘AUDIO VERTIGO ECHO elbow EP 5’ features last year’s one-off release ‘Adriana Again’ alongside ‘Sober,’ ‘Dis-Graceland 463-465 Bury New Road’ and ‘Timber’. Looking back lyrically while continuing to move forward musically, lead singer Guy Garvey describes the record as “finishing something for the band in lots of ways. We are having more fun in the studio than ever before. Craig’s on fire as a producer, Pete and Alex are the coolest rhythm section working and Pot’s unpredictable rhythm guitar has started working its way into such a soulful and accomplished place. The words are all stories from my past, sometimes joyful, often dark, but all of it exciting and mostly true. It feels like we’re having another go on the Waltzers after hours.” For long term elbow fans, the subjects of the four songs offer a basket of Easter Eggs to discover. Lead track ‘Dis-Graceland 463-465 Bury New Road’ is named in honor of the former residence of the Seldom Seen Kid, Bryan Glancy. Reminiscing about an ‘old Victorian villa with no central heating that became a modern Angkor Wat’ following Bryan’s departure via a slide into ruin and decrepitude, the track revisits a perennial Garvey theme of the dawn and references Guy’s time as a 17-year-old sofa surfer in the Manchester area. The topline melody for the track was written by Doves’ Jimi Goodwin, another long-term ally and friend of Guy and the band and is both a testament to Manchester’s musical legacy and a celebration of both youth and the joy of reflecting on past times in later life. Echoes from the past surface in ‘Timber’ with ‘little laddie-o’, Guy’s name for son Jack, being a hand me down from his mum whilst adding to numerous songs in the elbow catalogue where “I give myself advice in a song”. The motorik rhythms of previous release ‘Adriana Again’ propel a song that mythologizes the past through half true fragments of relationships and friendships.   The album, and the album period of ‘AUDIO VERTIGO,’ which has seen elbow rediscover their widescreen musical palette and reconnect, closes in appropriate fashion with the disco stomp of ‘Sober.’ Unlike anything else in the band’s canon yet immediately identifiable as them, the track was the first thing they worked on with drummer Al Reeves yet had to be set aside for the reset until now, where the new elbow approach found the track ready to be shot through with glitter and groove and joy. To celebrate a hugely successful two years, elbow will be returning to the US for the first time since 2020, bringing their critically acclaimed catalog across North America for a headlining tour. Starting in Washington, D.C. on September 26, the band will now be making 17 stops across the country, winding their way to the west coast and finishing at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on October 16. Tickets are available via https://elbow.co.uk   ‘AUDIO VERTIGO ECHO elbow EP5’ is out everywhere now.

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