Elbow
The Take Off and the Landing of Everything is the title of the new album from Elbow.
These former Mercury Prize winners lead with the beautiful melancholy of “New York Morning”.
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Broadcast today
Today’s podcast on CyberStationUSA at 5:00 pm Eastern (and on-demand thereafter) includes:
Tamaryn
Danger Mouse, Daniele Luppi & Jack White
Moby
Foster the People
Peter Bjorn and John
Jonsi
Thurston Moore
Low
YACHT
Elbow
Atari Teenage Riot
Fucked Up
Tennis
Okkervil River
The xx
The band The xx were just named the winners of the 2010 Mercury Prize awarded for the best album by a UK or Irish band. Established in 1992, Primal Scream’s Screamadelica took home the initial award. Other winners have included Suede, Portishead, Pulp, Badly Drawn Boy, PJ Harvey, Dizzee Rascal, Franz Ferdinand, Antony and the Johnsons, Arctic Monkeys, Klaxons and Elbow. Laura Marling, Mumford & Sons, Foals, Paul Weller, Dizzee Rascal, Corinne Bailey Rae and Wild Beasts were among this year’s nominees. The trio receives £20,000. “Crystalised” and “Islands” are two singles from The xx debut album xx, plus the song “Infinity” a personal fave.
“Crystalised”
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“Islands”
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“Infinity”
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