The Seldom Seen Kid The Seldom Seen Kid The Seldom Seen Kid is the fourth studio album by English rock band Elbow. It was released by Fiction Records on 17 March 2008 in the United Kingdom and was released by Geffen Records on 22 April 2008 in the United States. The album debuted at number five on the UK Albums Chart and won the Mercury Prize in 2008. The album was recorded at Blueprint Studios in Manchester, and is the first Elbow album to be entirely self-produced, mixed and recorded without any outside help. The bulk of the record was written and performed by
The American Mercury volunteer writers and editors, among whom are some who collectively worked with the contributors and management of the print "Mercury" for over 40 years. The publishers refer to themselves as the "Jefferson-Mencken Group." The "new" "American Mercury" was criticized by the Southern Poverty Law Center in the Winter 2013 edition of their magazine "Intelligence Report", which called it a "Leo Frank Propaganda Site" and described it as "a resurrected and deeply anti-Semitic online version of H. L. Mencken’s defunct magazine of the same name". The Anti-Defamation League calls it "an extreme right-wing site with anti-Semitic content", while "The Jewish Daily