The Diving Board
A sparse, piano-driven return to roots. Stripped of stadium gloss, these tracks favor intimate storytelling and warm, analog-heavy jazz and gospel textures.
September 13, 2013 · Mercury
A sparse, piano-driven return to roots. Stripped of stadium gloss, these tracks favor intimate storytelling and warm, analog-heavy jazz and gospel textures.
September 13, 2013 · Mercury
A stark, unadorned acoustic space opens up around the keyboard on this quiet, late-career return to basics. The arrangements strip away decades of stadium-sized production to leave only a dry, resonant piano trio, letting a deeply weathered vocal register navigate somber, historical narratives with an intimate, candlelit focus.
How does The Diving Board sound next to the rest of Elton John's catalogue?
The production is built around stripped back than this artist usually allows.
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