Badly Drawn Boy

A folk-pop take on John's tart sense of melody and Paul's sense of sonic adventure that somehow evokes Nick Drake, Elliott Smith and the Lilac Time even more than the Beatles. Sharp pop hooks, tuneful melancholy and cheeky humor alternate with ingratiating blasts of joy. Damon Gough's finest album yet.

One thing that made Damon Gough of Badly Drawn Boy so likable when he meandered onto
the Brit-rock scene four years ago was that he was an oddball who didn't make a point of
announcing his eccentricities to the world. Like a funk-free version of Beck, he's a
Seventies-style singer-songwriter for the do-it-yourself era, wrapping his outsider poetry
in delicately pretty melodies, softly plunked piano and just the right amount of s... More >