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- Record Label: Artist Direct / XL Recordings
- Release Date: Apr 23, 2002
- 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.
- Record Label: Artist Direct / XL Recordings
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative, Soundtrack
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 16 out of 19
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Mixed: 3 out of 19
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Negative: 0 out of 19
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It's an album that feels like a watershed somehow, a significant step onwards.
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With About a Boy, Badly Drawn boy has grown up.
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Entertainment WeeklyA mix of songs and themes balancing obsessive craft with flippant style. [3 May 2002, p.89]
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BlenderBadly Drawn Boy pulls off the job with panache, tipping his hat to Nick Drake, Burt Bacharach and acoustic-era Bob Dylan. [Jun/Jul 2002, p.103]
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The songs lack the emotional depth of Bewilderbeast, but the jaunty folk-pop is just so much fun.
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The songs on About a Boy are all exactly what we've come to expect from Gough, and the disc's lack of cohesion is its only real failing.
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Every card Gough plays is painfully transparent from the first time you play the disc. It's elementary stuff. It sounds manufactured, refined, cosmetic and sterile; in a word, silicone, like a pair of Badly Sculpted Breast Implants.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 8 out of 8
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Mixed: 0 out of 8
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Negative: 0 out of 8
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JNJul 25, 2002feelgood album of the summer and probably the year!
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DaveN.Sep 13, 2002It does not get much better than this.....
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Jul 20, 2023
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JaredSSMay 24, 2004
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MonkeyMaloneApr 23, 2002Rolling Stone can bite my butt!!!
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DaveLAug 22, 2002Very good album....solid songwriting, great singing. "Silent Sigh" is one of the best songs of the year.
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Oct 23, 2016
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