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- Record Label: Twisted Nerve / Astralwerks
- Release Date: Jul 27, 2004
- Summary: Apart from demonstrating that his addition skills are as poor as Radiohead's, 'One Plus One' finds Damon Gough returning to the more low-key, lo-fi sound of his earlier work after the much glossier 'Have You Fed The Fish?' failed to win the British singer-songwriter new fans in 2002.
- Record Label: Twisted Nerve / Astralwerks
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 23
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Mixed: 9 out of 23
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Negative: 3 out of 23
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One Plus One Is One may not sparkle with surprising brilliance, as Bewilderbeast did, but it is certainly the most thematically and musically grounded album Gough has yet created.
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Q MagazineAn album full of freshness and fun that's less sketchy than its predecessors. [Jul 2004, p.110]
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FilterSounds like something made by a gifted producer who has a great voice, an earnest way with words, a vast well of fantastic ideas, and a serious OCD complex. [#12, p.95]
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BlenderGet past the sometimes cloying pastoral arrangements and the often cornball sentiments and there are moments of ragged glory. [Sep 2004, p.132]
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Despite some truly inspired songs, One Plus One doesn't have the same dizzying effect as the genre-hopscotching Bewilderbeast or the orchestrated beauty of confident follow-ups About a Boy and Have You Fed the Fish?.
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I have the distinct feeling Ive heard most of the songs on this album before. Nothing here is particularly original, and nothing moves me in the way that Goughs earlier work so did.
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One Plus One is One sounds like an attempt to make a more serious statement, but with little substance invested in it. The result is Badly Drawn Boy's first boring album.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 7
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Mixed: 2 out of 7
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Negative: 2 out of 7
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JaredSSJul 27, 2004
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martkJun 27, 2004
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mattaJul 19, 2005
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VinceH.Aug 18, 2004
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Oct 26, 2011
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AlexisSep 21, 2005
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angeerightJun 23, 2004
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