Elbow - The Best Of

The Best Of is the second compilation album by British alternative rock band Elbow, released in November 2017 via Polydor Records.

Elbow are an English rock band consisting of Guy Garvey (vocals, guitar), Craig Potter (keyboard, piano, backing vocals), Mark Potter (guitar, backing vocals) and Pete Turner (bass guitar, backing vocals). They have played together since 1990, adopting the Elbow band name in 1997. The band have released seven studio albums prior to this new album, Asleep in the Back (2001), Cast of Thousands (2003), Leaders of the Free World (2005), The Seldom Seen Kid (2008), Build a Rocket Boys! (2011), The Take Off and Landing of Everything (2014), and Little Fictions (2017). Their studio albums have all reached the top 15 of the British album charts and in 2008, the band won the Mercury Music Prize for their album The Seldom Seen Kid, and in 2009 they won the Brit Award for Best British Group.

This career spanning compilation album covers their studio albums from their 2001 debut Asleep At The Wheel to their 2017 album Little Fictions, and includes a cover of the Beatles “Golden Slumbers” used in the 2017 John Lewis Christmas advertisement titled “Moz The Monster”.

This triple album 3LP set is on black vinyl housed in a tri-fold gatefold sleeve, pressed in Europe via Polydor Records.