{"id":25039,"date":"2015-11-03T13:39:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T21:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=25039"},"modified":"2015-11-04T07:58:42","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T15:58:42","slug":"watch-official-videos-from-debut-solo-album-courting-the-squall-from-guy-garvey-elbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2015-11\/watch-official-videos-from-debut-solo-album-courting-the-squall-from-guy-garvey-elbow\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Official Videos from Debut Solo Album &#8220;Courting the Squall&#8221; from Guy Garvey (Elbow)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/GarveySolo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-25041\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/GarveySolo-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"GarveySolo\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/GarveySolo.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/GarveySolo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/GarveySolo-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop-cap\"><span class=\"drop-cap__inner\">We&#8217;ve made no bones about our adoration of the Mancunian band<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/elbow.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Elbow<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0The last year-plus has been a prolific period for the band, but turns out <strong>Elbow&#8217;s<\/strong> band members had even more in the wings. \u00a0Leader <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guygarvey.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Guy Garvey<\/a><\/strong> has just surfaced a critically-acclaimed (no shock there) album entitled <strong><em>Courting the Squall<\/em><\/strong>. \u00a0 While the vocals remain the glorious same on the solo album, there are added musical flourishes, such as more horns, lutes, keys, beats and jazz elements. \u00a0Lyrically, <strong>Garvey<\/strong> remains his terse, poetic self. \u00a0The songs&#8217; narratives naturally parallel <strong>Garvey&#8217;s<\/strong> personal life, including his split from a long-term love (as also heard on <strong>Elbow\u2019s<\/strong> last album,\u00a0<strong><em>The Take Off and Landing of Everything<\/em><\/strong>), and, apparently, his new-found love. \u00a0Suffice it to say, the album is completely grand. \u00a0Yet again. We expect nothing less from <strong>Guy Garvey.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>To get a feel, check out below the official videos for the brooding title track and musically-grittier, &#8217;60s film-soundtrack smack of\u00a0<em><strong>Angela&#8217;s Eyes<\/strong><\/em>. \u00a0Superb stuff.<\/p>\n<p>You can see his upcoming European tour dates and pick up <strong><em>Courting the Squall<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guygarvey.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H-gYHw0-7-Y\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CIEhf4n221o\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve made no bones about our adoration of the Mancunian band Elbow. \u00a0The last year-plus has been a prolific period for the band, but turns out Elbow&#8217;s band members had even more in the wings. \u00a0Leader Guy Garvey has just surfaced a critically-acclaimed (no shock there) album entitled Courting the Squall. \u00a0 While the vocals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25039"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25045,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25039\/revisions\/25045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}