A download-only compilation entitled Elephant's Graveyard, collecting B-sides and rarities from 2000 to 2005, was issued in summer 2005.
Harcourt's fourth studio album The Beautiful Lie was released in June 2006.
A compilation gathering some of Ed Harcourt's best work appeared in October 2007 as Until Tomorrow Then: The Best of Ed Harcourt, featuring the new single "You Put a Spell on Me".
Additionally, a special limited edition version of the best-of included a bonus disc of completely unreleased material.
Following a "self-imposed sabbatical,"[2] Harcourt recorded his fifth studio album Lustre, released in June 2010.