Asleep in the Back

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 01:01:36
Elbow: Guy Garvey (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, harmonica, synthesizer, percussion, sound effects); Mark Potter (acoustic & electric guitars, background vocals); Craig Potter (piano, organ, synthesizer, background vocals); Pete Turner (synthesizer, bass, background vocals). Additional personnel includes: Ian Burdge (cello); Francoise Lemoignan (saxophone); Bob Sastri, Nick Coen (brass); Danny Evans (percussion, loops); Ben Hillier (percussion, background vocals). Producers: Danny Evans, Elbow, Ben Hillier, Steve Osborne. Engineers include: Danny Evans, Steve Lloyd, Danton Supple. Lyricist: Guy Garvey. Personnel: Guy Garvey (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, harmonica, synthesizer, glass, percussion, background vocals); Elbow Choir (vocals); Mark Potter (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, background vocals); Ian Burdge (cello); Jonathan Snowden (flute, alto flute); Stuart King (clarinet, bass clarinet); Bob Sastri (French horn, brass); Matthew Gunner (French horn); Nick Coen (brass); Craig Potter (piano, organ, keyboards, glass, percussion, background vocals); Pete Turner (bass guitar); Pete Turner (glass, background vocals); Ben Hillier (percussion, background vocals); Danny Evans (percussion programming). Audio Mixers: Clarence Lewis; Danny Evans; Steve Osborne; Ben Hillier; Andrea Wright . Recording information: Elbow Rooms; Les Caves Des Poiteviniere, France; Manchester Limosine Studios; Moles Studio, Bath, Somerset, England; Noisebox; Parr Street Studios, Liverpool; Real World Studios, Bath, Somerset, England; The Dairy, London, England; The Elbow Rooms. England's Elbow has been labeled as nouveau prog-rock, but Pink Floyd rarely sounded this radio-friendly. With tracks built on soaring vocals, shimmering guitars, spooky strings, and trance-inducing beats, the group falls more accurately between morose modern balladeers such as Coldplay and Travis and experimental sonic soldiers like Radiohead and early Genesis. They've described their sound as "prog without the solos," which also doesn't do justice to their full-length debut, ASLEEP IN THE BACK, by half. The album is a subtly shifting series of dreamy pop songs with emotionally tortured lyrics. With a voice that veers between the keening falsettos of Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Dave Matthews' raspier end, Garvey mostly hovers over the album's skeletal, floating arrangements. He almost gets lost in the swell of "Newborn," while achieving a hypnotizing strength with the double- and triple-tracked vocals of "Any Day Now," and nearly whispering himself out of the picture on the Floydian "Bitten by the Tailfly." Most of the arrangements hover around the mid-tempo range and the group is not afraid to stretch well past the five-minute mark, allowing the songs to slowly unfold at their leisure.
録音 : ステレオ (Studio)