Elbow are to make an album for children, frontman Guy Garvey has revealed.
The singer told Billboard.biz that the music would be accompanied by animations. Garvey said: "We initially thought that it would be great to make music for children because the lads in the band have got kids and they were saying how little really decent music for children there is. The more that we thought about it the more that we liked the idea.
"We've quite often been up for having songs on children's animated films, but we thought that it would be great to actually be at the starting point for that process."
Elbow are set to start work on the follow-up to their Mercury Prize-winning fourth album 'The Seldom Seen Kid' before their European tour, which kicks off in October, resuming recording in early 2009. Garvey explained the proposed children's album would be worked on around the fifth LP. He continued: "It might not be something that's complete before the next record. The first thing to do is find the story and that's great fun to research. I want to do something that really fires kids' imaginations. I think you can go somewhere in writing for children that you can't do with adults. I think adults would just say 'Oh, that's bizarre' and shut their ears. Whereas [when writing for children] you can really go absolutely nuts and kids will follow you and love it."
Revealing that Jeff Wayne's 1978 concept album 'War Of The Worlds' was an inspiration for the animation.
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