Elbow - Forget Myself
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Forget Myself is possibly the greatest track Elbow have released and is the single we always knew they had in them. The band have come a long way since first album Asleep In The Back, both in sound and song-writing capabilities.

Forget Myself jumps forward with rattling percussion and a hypnotic drumbeat, over an epic and mantra-like chorus of religious proportions. The whole thing is produced in a slick studio but is still instantly recognisable as an Elbow track, without falling down the overblown route of say, Starsailor or Coldplay. Only they've now shaken lose all of those moody labels and melancholic images and come out on top as this year's most uplifting, Summer band.

With any justice, Elbow's new album Leaders Of The Free World will be bursting with tracks this impressive.