- Record Label: The End
- Release Date: Oct 12, 2010
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Sadly, much of the rest conforms to a malaise that's afflicted him since 2002's Have You Fed the Fish?: repetitive tracks consisting of one looping half-melody that outstays its welcome by several months.
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Unshowy, slowly revealing its pleasures, this is subtle, and clever, but rather too downplayed for its own good.
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Although there are still individual songs here and there that are over-the-top, this album sounds more like the Badly Drawn Boy of old. But since the songs aren't up to the high standards he set for himself a decade ago, It's What I'm Thinking is more like Gough doing a mediocre imitation of early Badly Drawn Boy than recapturing what once made him great.
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Q MagazineToo Many Miracles, I Saw You Walk Away and This Electric come lovingly swaddled in strings and, if only for their duration, make the world a nicer place. [Nov 2010, p.105]
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Dec 21, 2010His return to more intimate recording can't conceal that there's nary a melody worth savoring amid the autumnal folkiness.
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UncutPitched as the first part of a trilogy, this is a batch of effortlessly lovely tunes, warmly intimate and muzzy with reverb. [Nov 2010, p.81]
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Under The RadarOct 26, 2010Less than the sum of its parts, here's hoping that whatever Gough is thinking for part two includes hiring an editor to help him provide form to all this meaning. [Fall 2010, p.58]
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