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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.
- Record Label: V2
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative
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Your eyes are just like black spiders Your hair and dress in ribbons Babycakes In despair or incoherent, nothing in between China white, my bride... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 17 out of 19
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Mixed: 2 out of 19
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Negative: 0 out of 19
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Their debut drips of melancholy and swims in gorgeous sheets of incidental noise.
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A dark, moody, hypnotic monumental masterpiece with songs that unfold subtlety from one elaborate texture to the next so that you almost don't notice the marvelous hooks until they have dug their way beneath your skin and buried themselves in your soul.
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One of the best debut albums of the last five years.
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Alternative PressAsleep is just enigmatic enough to avoid plagiarism. [Mar 2002, p.77]
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The tempos might not ever exceed mid-level, and half of the songs might exceed five minutes, but the record is anything but a difficult listen or tough to wade through.
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While the band has a very developed sense of texture and sound, though, they rather desperately need to work on changing things up a bit more with regard to the songs themselves.
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Establishing a languorous mood right away, the album is all meandering, low-key moods and textures, with precious few focused songs on which to hang them.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 8
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Mixed: 0 out of 8
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Negative: 2 out of 8
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Dec 10, 2010
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[Anonymous]Oct 11, 2002simply one of the best, most emotional and mind-blowing records of all time. hard to imagine it's a debut.
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CraigJan 14, 2004one of the best debut albums i've heard in the past few years.
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MrMikeyAug 24, 2004
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Jul 31, 2012
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TeeMar 7, 2002boring. no two ways about it.
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MikeS.Mar 11, 2002
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