New Elbow Video - "One Day Like This"
We've already raved about breezy, ballsy "Grounds For Divoce" and the altogether dreamer "Mirrorball," both from Elbow's excellent fourth album, The Seldom Seen Kid. Unlike the part band performance/part barroom twister of "Grounds For Divorce"'s video, the setup for the British quintet's new, Rigan Ledwidge-directed clip is a simple outdoor vignette. Standing on the side of the road with a "condos now selling" sign, a bored minimum wager starts spinning and flipping and otherwise twisting around the advertisement. As he grows more elaborate with his moves, and the sign gets more difficult to read (or, suggesting the condos are selling in every direction at once), he looks a little bit happier. But just a little. Watch it here. Strangely beautiful.
The Seldom Seen Kid is out now in the UK on Fiction/Polydor and 4/22 in the US on Geffen.
Posted at 10:53 AM in Video
Tags: Elbow
I see so many sign spinners out here in LA, but this guy is much more fun than any of them. I totally want to buy a condo now. and the Elbow album.
Posted by: suii at April 1, 2008 1:06 PM | ReplyScore = 0
This new Elbow album is just brilliant and this is my favourite song amongst a collection of beautifully crafted gems. With the line "one day like this a year will see me right" resonating throughout the song, this is a song of hope. Elbow know how to use the English language better than most and "The Seldom Seen Kid" is the most accessible Elbow album yet. I expect to see it featuring in many top 10 lists at the end of the year. Rarely equaled but never beaten!
Posted by: TAW at April 1, 2008 3:30 PM | ReplyScore = 0
there's an older Elbow song called "Powder Blue" that I often get stuck playing repeatedly for a good hour, because it's just that beautiful. sort of haunting, swaggering melodies... just gorgeous.
Posted by: tara at April 4, 2008 2:35 PM | ReplyScore = 0