Guy Garvey would get there eventually, to the subjects at hand, but first he had to show me his whiteboard.
Before our scheduled Zoom conversation about the 20th anniversary of Elbow’s debut, Asleep in the Back, as well as their brand new release, Flying Dream 1, Garvey gave me a quick tour of his home studio. Dominating one wall was a blank canvas upon which he’d written two words in all caps: “ELBOW 10.” It was a space upon which to dream about the band’s yet unwritten 10th full-length album.
Even when sitting down to discuss a full-length studio LP that wasn’t yet released, Garvey is already looking ahead to Elbow’s next set of songs, a forward-focused creative mindset that’s defined the frontman of one of the U.K.’s most acclaimed bands of the last 20 years.
