Elbow have announced that they will release their ninth studio album, ‘Flying Dream 1’, in November. Written remotely during lockdown, the band hired Brighton’s Theatre Royal to record the album, while the venue was otherwise in shutdown.“Hiring a two hundred year old theatre that has never in its history been closed for so long was something that could only be done under the circumstances”, says vocalist Guy Garvey. “[It was] nice to turn it on its head in that way.
Recording in a splendid generous space with no audience was something that throws an anchor in the times that the record was made in”.The creation of the album began, he says, after the members of the band started sending “little love notes” to each other, that were developed.
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