 | Asleep in the Back [New Version] - Elbow
Publisher: V2
Released on 11 February 2002
List Price: £7.99
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... Read More
| Tracks |
| Any Day Now | Red | Little Beast | Powder Blue |
| Bitten By The Tail Fly | Newborn | Don't Mix Your Drinks | Presuming Ed |
| Coming Second | Can't Stop | Scattered Black And Whites | Asleep in the Back |
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