Elbow - Little Fictions (Black Vinyl)

Black Vinyl LP

Concord Records issued Little Fictions in the US, and this is its 180-gram black vinyl LP, catalog number CRE00377, which comes with a digital download of the album. It was pressed at Memphis Record Pressing. The ten songs split five to a side, and the eight-and-a-half-minute title track sits second to last on side B.

The album came out on February 3, 2017, on Polydor in the UK and Concord in the US. It was Elbow's seventh studio album and their first without founding drummer Richard Jupp, who had left the year before; session drummer Alex Reeves plays on it. Keyboardist Craig Potter produced it, as he had the three albums before. The band recorded at Gargunnock House near Stirling, at their own Elbow Rooms and at Blueprint Studios in Salford, with string players from The Hallé, the Hallé Ancoats Community Choir and members of London Contemporary Voices.

"Magnificent (She Says)" was the first single, followed by "All Disco," which Pixies frontman Black Francis inspired. "Gentle Storm" arrived with a video directed by Kevin Godley, modeled on Godley & Creme's "Cry," with Benedict Cumberbatch among the faces. Metacritic averages the album's reviews at 80, from 19 critics.

Tracklist

Side A

1. Magnificent (She Says)
2. Gentle Storm
3. Trust the Sun
4. All Disco
5. Head for Supplies

Side B

1. Firebrand & Angel
2. K2
3. Montparnasse
4. Little Fictions
5. Kindling

Complete the Collection

Five Elbow titles at Evergreen Vinyl, this one included: Asleep in the Back, Cast of Thousands, Dead in the Boot, Giants of All Sizes.