Elbow's new record 'Flying Dream 1' features ten ruminative, lushly-orchestrated ballads with intimate and melancholic sound. Band's frontman Guy Garvey walked to The New Cue about it: "I think that’s probably the case with a lot of bands that do both, that do drama as well as subtle. I think subtler music is easier to work on and doesn’t require energy. In some ways, it’s like having a warm bath". Garvey also describes the process of writing that album: "When everyone in my house was asleep at the end of every day, the relief was, as you can imagine, just fucking tangible every single day. I’d go to the back door, spark up a fag, pour myself a large one and listen to what the lads had sent. It was a proper lifeline".

"£10 a month for access to all music is too little" - Elbow's Guy Garvey told the Guardian, suggesting music fans should pay more, otherwise we face a risk of losing the next generation of bands. "It’s not sustainable and the emergency is we’re losing artists because they’re demoralised and they can’t afford to live" - Garvey said. Elbow frontman is pushing for equitable remuneration in which streams are split 50/50 between labels and groups.