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About A Boy [Soundtrack] - Badly Drawn Boy
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79 out of 100

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8.4 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 16 Ratings

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  • Summary: Instead of a real follow-up to "The Hour of Bewliderbeast" (look for that later in 2002), Damon Gough returns with the score to the film adaptation of the Nick Hornby novel. The 16 new tracks here are split between short instrumental pieces and full songs.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. Neumu.net
    90
    With About a Boy, Badly Drawn boy has grown up.
  2. All Music Guide
    90
    It's difficult to imagine how Badly Drawn Boy could've improved on The Hour of Bewilderbeast any better than this astonishing work.
  3. Uncut
    60
    Light and airy, pretty in parts, but devoid of muscle, grit or originality. [May 2002, p.96]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. DaveN.
    10
    It does not get much better than this.....
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  2. JN
    10
    feelgood album of the summer and probably the year!
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  3. matta
    9
    A pair of badly sculpted breast implants? What the F? The folks over at Pitchfork need to pull their heads out of their asses. A great follow-up to Bewilderbeast and just a flat-out great album. His "proper" follow-up later this same year proved that Badly Drawn Boy is a genius, and that Pitchfork knows nothing.… Expand
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