The Take Off and Landing of Everything

The Take Off and Landing of Everything
Studio album by
Elbow
Released10 March 2014
Recorded2012–2013
StudioReal World Studios, Box, Wiltshire
Blueprint Studios, Salford
Genre
Length56:51
LabelFiction, Polydor (UK, Europe, Australia & Canada)
Concord (US)
ProducerCraig Potter
Elbow chronology
Dead in the Boot
(2012) 		The Take Off and Landing of Everything
(2014) 		Little Fictions
(2017)
Singles from The Take Off and Landing of Everything
  1. "New York Morning"
    Released: 27 January 2014
  2. "Charge"
    Released: 19 April 2014
  3. "My Sad Captains"
    Released: 26 May 2014
  4. "Real Life (Angel)"
    Released: 4 August 2014

The Take Off and Landing of Everything is the sixth studio album by English rock band Elbow, released in the UK, Europe, and Australia through Fiction Records and Polydor Records on 10 March 2014[5] and in the US on Concord Records on 11 March 2014.

Originally recorded with the working title of All at Once[6] and then renamed Carry Her, Carry Me[7] after a line in closing track "The Blanket of Night", the band changed their mind shortly before the album's release and settled on naming the album after one of its tracks. Singer Guy Garvey explained, "It's to do with the fact that there have been [so many] life events. There are five members of the band—people have split up, got together, had children. It never stops, this stuff. Especially round the [age of] 40 mark... and yet I wanted to remain celebratory about that. Everybody's feeling relief, with remorse, next to joy, next to loss. But I think laughing very hard and worrying very little is a good way to keep young."[8]

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  6. ^ "Elbow unveil sixth album details, announce new UK tour". NME. London, England: IPC Media. 30 September 2013. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
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