Elbow new album exclusive

Guy Garvey reveals all about new record

21 Jan 07 - Elbow have been talking exclusively to 6 Music about their eagerly-anticipated new album, the follow-up to the hugely-acclaimed Leaders Of The Free World.

Talking to the Music Week from their studio, frontman Guy Garvey said the album will be much darker than anything else they've done in the past.

 He revealed: "On Leaders Of The Free World  you heard the big room all over it. You won't hear that this time. It takes you into different atmospheres for each song."

He also revealed what the cover art would look like. "On the cover they'll be a picture of Jupp (drummer Richard Jupp), with a fedora hat on, but you can only see one eye? He's teasing the brim down over the other eye with a coquettish look on his face."

Guy also revealed that the band couldn't decide what to call the album - either Ustinov in tribute to the late actor and raconteur Peter Ustinov or Teasing The Brim.

To hear the interview in full and get an exclusive snippet of one of the songs from the new album plus some of the other titles being bandied about by the band,  you can listen again to the Music Week - just click here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/music_week/

Jody Thompson