Elbow recording children's album

Elbow are working on an album of children's music and an accompanying animated film, Billboard reports.

Frontman Guy Garvey revealed that the band will work on the project and record their fifth studio album concurrently.

"We initially thought that it would be great to make music for children because the lads in the band have got kids and they were saying how little really decent music for children there is," Garvey explained.

"The more that we thought about it, the more that we liked the idea. We've quite often been up for having songs on children's animated films, but we thought that it would be great to actually be at the starting point for that process."

Garvey added that he hoped the proposed animated film, inspired by Jeff Wayne's 1978 album The War Of The Worlds, will "fire kids's imaginations".

"I think you can go somewhere in writing for children that you can't do with adults," he commented. "I think adults would just say, 'Oh, that's bizarre' and shut their ears. Whereas [when writing for children] you can really go absolutely nuts and kids will follow you and love it."

Elbow last album The Seldom Seen Kid recently picked up the Mercury Music Prize.