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Asleep in the Back [New Version]
 
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Asleep in the Back [New Version]
~ Elbow (Artist)
4.5 out of 5 stars  (42 customer reviews)
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Product details
  • Audio CD (11 Feb 2002)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: V2
  • ASIN: B00005UUQO
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  (42 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 387 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

    Popular in these categories:

    #7 in  Music > Dance & Electronic > Ambient
    #7 in  Music > Indie > British
    #13 in  Music > Indie > Britpop

Track Listings

1. Any Day Now
2. Red
3. Little Beast
4. Powder Blue
5. Bitten By The Tail Fly
6. Newborn
7. Don't Mix Your Drinks
8. Presuming Ed
9. Coming Second
10. Can't Stop
11. Scattered Black And Whites
12. Asleep in the Back

Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
While it's tempting to position Elbow next to the sardonic likes of Badly Drawn Boy--mainly because of their proximity to the city of Manchester and their way with an acoustic guitar--Asleep In The Back, their frighteningly competent debut album, bears not the joker's smile. Instead, it comes straight from Manchester's simmering, ugly dark side--eleven tracks of rain-sodden misery, blown up into the breed of gracefully elegiac fatalism that once formed the essence of the likes of Joy Division. The foggy psychedelic swirl and sewer-deep dub basslines might recall the prog-rock indulgences of Radiohead, but Elbow's grievances are unmistakably aired from the far end of a dole queue; "Any Day Now" veritably fidgets with small town frustration, lead singer Guy Garvey--a man with the voice of an angel and the face of a brickie--hissing "Any day now/ How's about getting out of this place/ Anyways?" over and over, a mantra of desperation. Should we take it as a given that Elbow will break out of this rut of depression and despair? Asleep In The Back is good enough to suggest so. But then, Asleep In The Back also knows that fate can be awfully cruel. --Louis Pattison

Description
Debut release by melancholy Bury indie band. Their acousticsong structures and lush production work have drawn comparisons with Doves and Radiohead. Features songs from the 'New Born' and 'Any Day Now' EPs and the top 40 single 'Red'.

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