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Given The Elbow: The Confessions Of Guy Garvey

Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, August 2003

Two years ago, Elbow released Asleep In The Back, an intense suite of prog-inflected songs that stands as one of the finest albums ever to come out of Manchester. Its follow-up, Cast Of Thousands, is finally upon us. Barney Hoskyns met the group’s singer and principal songwriter in his home town.

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