The Take Off and Landing of Everything by Elbow

The Take Off and Landing of Everything, Elbow's sixth album, came out on Fiction and Polydor on 10 March 2014, with Concord handling America a day later. It went through a couple of names first, the working title All at Once and then Carry Her, Carry Me, a phrase taken from closer "The Blanket of Night", before the Bury band settled on one of the album's own song titles.

Guy Garvey framed it as a record about the churn of grown-up life, breakups, new couples and babies across a five-piece band around the 40 mark, and his determination to stay celebratory through it all, relief rubbing up against remorse and joy sitting right beside loss. That tension suits the band's slow-blooming grandeur, Craig Potter's keys and Mark Potter's guitar swelling behind Garvey's warm burr while Pete Turner and Richard Jupp hold the floor. "New York Morning" is the wide-eyed peak.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.