Elbow: Asleep in the Back Elbow's 'Asleep in the Back' is a wondrous and ambitious album. Rating: * * * * Before they inched towards stadium status and won the Mercury Prize, Elbow were an edgy, slightly oblique group, variously hinting at alt-rock influences such as My Bloody Valentine and Radiohead's Kid A. Their 2001 debut Asleep in the Back was, however, a wondrous and ambitious record, fully deserving of this three-disc Deluxe Edition, which adds an early EP, live and session tracks, plus a documentary DVD.