Asleep In The Back by Elbow: Britpop/Prog Rock. The album sounds like a soundtrack to a movie that doesn’t exist. The movie’s in black and white and it’s about a doomed romance that has occurred during some hazy drug-fuelled weekend. The songs drift by in a woozy state and then can suddenly burst with energy freaking the listener out before falling back again into some warm security blanket that doesn’t really exist. Lyrics seem cryptic and the guitars sound like they’re made of raindrops and thunderstorms. TWH: Bitten By The Tailfly; Asleep in the Back;

Grade: B