Elbow: 'Last record gave us confidence'

Elbow frontman Guy Garvey has said that the band felt less pressure since the success of their last album, The Seldom Seen Kid.

The group release the follow-up Build A Rocket Boys! on March 7. They have suggested that its sound is reminiscent of their first album.

Garvey told The Quietus: "The pressures of following such a hugely successful record were nothing compared to the making of the previous albums. If anything it just gave us confidence.

"We had a conversation right at the top of making Build... and we agreed that, as always, we were just going to get stuck in."

He added: "We tried to ignore the excitement of the big stages we knew we were now going to play and concentrated as always on making a record that would leave the listener somewhere other than [where] it found them.

"We are still an album band before anything else and the phrase whenever we got stuck was simple, 'What do we want to hear next?'"