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| Asleep in the Back [Bonus Track] | ![Asleep in the Back [Bonus Track]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41PWF1K1SML.jpg)
| Artist: Elbow
Label: V2 North America
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (47 reviews)
Sales Rank: 41043
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 27116
UPC: 638812711625
EAN: 0638812711625
ASIN: B00005UK0N
Release Date: January 22, 2002
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| Tracks:
| • | Any Day Now | | • | Red | | • | Little Beast | | • | Powder Blue | | • | Bitten by the Tailfly | | • | Asleep in the Back | | • | Newborn | | • | Don't Mix Your Drinks | | • | Presuming Ed (Rest Easy) | | • | Coming Second | | • | Can't Stop | | • | Scattered Black and Whites |
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Album 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'.
Amazon.com
Asleep in the Back, Elbow's frighteningly competent debut album, presents 11 tracks of rain-sodden misery blown up into the breed of gracefully elegiac fatalism that once formed the essence of, say, Joy Division. Elbow's foggy psychedelic swirl and sewer-deep dub bass lines might recall the prog-rock indulgences of Radiohead, but their grievances are unmistakably aired from the far end of a welfare line. "Any Day Now" veritably fidgets with small-town frustration, with lead singer Guy Garvey (a man with the voice of an angel and the face of a brickie) repeatedly hissing a mantra of desperation: "Any day now / How's about getting out of this place / Anyways?" 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, while also suggesting that fate can be awfully cruel. --Louis Pattison
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| Customer Reviews: Read 42 more reviews...
 introducing Elbow April 13, 2007
Elbow's first, best (to date), most interesting, and most poignant release. Highlights include:
- Any Day Now, the grinding, dissatisfied opening number
- Red, which is probably more responsible for this band being continually likened to Coldplay than any other song they have done
- Newborn, probably their most famous song and the one that is most deserving of the band's self-proclaimed genre, "prog rock without the solos"
- Scattered Black and Whites, which is one of those quintessentially Elbow numbers that drifts by sleepily under your radar if you're not paying attention, and breaks your heart if you are
Little Beast, Powder Blue, and the title track are also terrific, each in its own way.
To the extent that it has a weakness, it's that some of the tracks get so weighted down in murky drums and noise and don't function as songs so much as transitory noise between songs. But don't let that stop you. Get this disc.
Brooding and beautiful January 10, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
To me, Asleep in the Back is one of the few albums that doesn't reveal a cynical formula after repeated listening. It is atmospheric, creative, intelligent and gorgeous. Too bad their follow-up efforts are not as cohesive. I still believe that one day they will blow my mind again.
best i have bought in years November 7, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
i heard about twenty seconds of track one ( any day now ) on an episode of nip/tuck, then spent several hours trying to track down the name of the band. i ordered the cd , anticipating one or two good songs, but after listening to the entire cd , i fell in love. i havent felt so emotionally connected to music since i was in high school, about thirteen years ago. after listening to the cd several times certain tracks grabbed ahold of me, namely #'s 1 , 4 , 6 , and 10.then i began to castigate myself for not knowing about this band before.they combine all of the best elements of pink floyd, radiohead, the rapture, and something else that sets them apart from any other band that ive heard . i would reccommend this cd to anyone who craves emotioal , evocative music that makes you feel again.
 give it a few listens May 9, 2005
itll take a few careful listnes to appreciate whats going on in these songs. theres a subtle brilliance to it that many people overlook.
one of the best of 2001 March 23, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this album way back in the autumn of 2001 (the UK version, the first print without the song "asleep in the back") note unheard just because I was intrigued by the overwhelmingly positive reviews of the album. Quite simply, this is the most confident and assured debut album since Mansun's "Attack of the Grey Lanterns" These songs were written over the course of 10 years, and it shows: Every track is extremely precise and calculated; every note is right where it's supposed to be. Guy Garvey sounds a little too much like Peter Gabriel at times (especially on the opening track, which could've been a lost Genesis song if you didn't know better) but at other times he has a very distinct smoky croon. "Newborn" and "Powder Blue" are two of the most beautiful songs of the last 5 years, and indeed, I'd say this is one of the 10 best albums of the last 5 years or so.
By the way, if you get a chance to see these guys live, do it, I saw them open for Doves in 2002 and they were absolutely incredible. I can't wait to hear what these guys come up with next!
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