- indie rock, rock, alt rock, alternative rock
- 55 min
- 11 tracks
- Fiction
The Seldom Seen Kid is the fourth studio album by English rock band Elbow. It was released by Fiction Records on 17 March 2008 in the United Kingdom and was released by Geffen Records on 22 April 2008 in the United States. The album debuted at number five on the UK Albums Chart and won the Mercury Prize in 2008.
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Spare, classical in form, character-led and contemporary.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
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Tracks
- 1Starlings5:05
- 2The Bones of You4:49
- 3Mirrorball5:50
- 4Grounds for Divorce3:39
- 5An Audience With the Pope4:28
- 6Weather to Fly4:29
- 7The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver5:14
- 8The Fix4:28
- 9Some Riot5:23
- 10One Day Like This6:34
- 11Friend of Ours4:38
11 tracks, 55 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Elbow
- Label
- Fiction
- Released
- 2008
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- XE
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