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Asleep In The Back - Elbow
  • Band Name: Elbow
  • Record Label: V2
  • Release Date: Jan 22, 2002
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82 out of 100

Universal acclaim - based on 19 Critics What's this?

User Score
8.5 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 24 Ratings

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  • Summary: Often compared to Doves and Radiohead, Manchester-based Elbow is yet another new alternative band to emerge from the British music press hype machine. This debut album was shortlisted for 2001's Mercury Music Prize.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. Playlouder
    100
    Elbow have made the most passionate, beautiful and downright special record you'll hear this year.
  2. E! Online
    100
    Their debut drips of melancholy and swims in gorgeous sheets of incidental noise.
  3. Spin
    60
    Not many of the expansive, leisurely songs on Asleep In The Back stick in the memory once they've ended, but they swoon nicely. [Mar 2002, p.127]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 14
  3. Negative: 2 out of 14
  1. kammi666
    10
    Absolutely beautiful album. Its filled with eerie and melancholy sounds mixed with some sweet riffs and effects. Definately worth a listen. Slow, moody, at times melancholy, but by no means boring.… Expand
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  2. Craig
    10
    one of the best debut albums i've heard in the past few years.
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  3. Tee
    3
    boring. no two ways about it.
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