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The Seldom Seen Kid

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The Seldom Seen Kid

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    Track     Duration Listeners
1 Play Starlings full track 5:05 83,386
2 Play The Bones of You full track 4:49 91,105
3 Play Mirrorball full track 5:50 84,449
4 Play Grounds For Divorce full track 3:40 133,853
5 Play An Audience With the Pope full track 4:28 77,629
6 Play Weather To Fly full track 4:30 102,075
7 Play The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver full track 5:15 70,235
8 Play The Fix full track 4:28 78,652
9 Play Some Riot full track 5:23 68,554
10 Play One Day Like This full track 6:35 128,384
11 Play Friend of Ours full track 4:37 74,670

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© Universal Music Division AZ (2009) Released: 6 Apr 2009 11 tracks (54:40)
The Seldom Seen Kid is the fourth studio album by the indie rock band Elbow. It was released by Fiction Records on March 17, 2008 in the United Kingdom, and was released by Geffen Records on April 22, 2008 in the United States.

The album was recorded at Blueprint Studios in Manchester, and is the first Elbow album to be entirely self-produced, mixed and recorded without any outside help. The bulk of the record was written and performed by the band, besides a guest appearance from singer-songwriter Richard Hawley who contributes to guest vocals, lead guitar and co-songwriting on PlayThe Fix.

The title of the album is taken from a lyric in the first single, PlayGrounds For Divorce. It also is a nickname, given by Guy Garvey’s father, for Bryan Glancy, a fellow Mancunian musician and friend of the band who died suddenly in 2006. The closing track, PlayFriend of Ours and the liner notes of the album are dedicated in his memory.

The album won the 2008 Mercury Music Prize.
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