Elbow taking their time with follow-up

Elbow may not release another album for five years.

The ‘Grounds For Divorce’ rockers admit they are feeling the pressure to produce an album of a good enough standard to follow the award-winning ‘Seldom-Seen Kid’ but are willing to take time to make the release as strong as possible.

Bassist Pete Turner said: "If it's three, four, or five years time, this next album has got to be the absolute dog's so we'll see.

"It's almost like a second album, this next album. It's the one that people are going to be really interested in so it means we've got to stop being such lazy bunch, try our hardest and really work at it - but we will do."

Although the group have had critical support for their previous four releases, the rocker believes that their new-found success will make it trickier for them next time round.

Turner explained to the BBC: "It's going to be good. It'll really keep us on our toes and we've always been the underdogs so magazines and radio stations have always got behind us.

"It's one thing if you're an underdog, if you're in the sunshine then I think that there's a tendency to come down on you a little bit."