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Soundtrack - About a Boy

About a Boy

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31/05/2004
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Soundtrack
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Description

Doubling as a new Badly Drawn Boy album and the soundtrack to the film adaptation of Nick Hornby's best selling novel, 'About A Boy' was recorded in Los Angeles with producer and Bong Load Records founder Tom Rothrock (Beck, Elliot Smith) and is Damon Gough's first major release since 2000's million selling, Mercury Music Prize winning 'Hour Of The Bewilderbeast'. Badly Drawn Boy became involved with the film at the request of Nick Hornby himself: "I wanted to get on with my ownrecord. But I met them (the film's creators), read the book and started to get a good feeling" explains Gough. The soundtrack was written in its entirety by Badly Drawn Boy - including eight new compositions and all the incidental music. Includes the single 'Donna And Blitzen'.

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Product Details

Artist
Soundtrack
Original year of release
2002
Label / Studio
XL RECORDINGS
Year of release
2004
Media Content Format
Album
Media Format
Audio CD
Recording Environment
Studio
Number of Discs
1
CD WOW! Sales Rank
#9515
Cast & Crew
Badly Drawn Boy (Music Performer)
Badly Drawn Boy (Producer)
Tom Rothrock (Producer)

Press Reviews

8 out of 10 - "...A solid set of songs... Alternative Press (7/02, pp.76-7)

...The CD is split between completely songs and fleeting instrumentals, all of it laced with that big-screen vibe... CMJ (4/22/02, p.4)

...A mix of songs and themes balancing obsessive craft with flippant style..." - Rating: B+ Entertainment Weekly (5/3/02, p.87)

...Lush real strings and the familiar one-take roughness....milkman-friendly classics all... Mojo (April 2002, p.108)

8 out of 10 - "...At its best, it wears its misery with a casual wryness, breezy instrumentation blowing away the sad cobwebs....eminently listenable yet deceptively gentle... NME (4/6/02, p.34)

Included in Q Magazine's "The 50 Best Albums of 2002. Q (12/02, p.65)

4 out of 5 stars - "...Original and gladdening music... Q (4/02, pp.106-7)

3.5 out of 5 stars - "...Gough's greatest strength is how calm and assured his voice and melodies are....You can tell he wanted to guild a grand orchestral-pop monument... Rolling Stone (5/9/02, p.72)

Tracklisting

Disc 1:

  1. Exit Stage Right
  2. A Peak You Reach
  3. Something to Talk About
  4. Dead Duck
  5. Above You, Below Me
  6. I Love N.Y.E
  7. Silent Sight
  8. Wet, Wet, Wet
  9. River-Sea-Ocean
  10. S.P.A.T
  11. Rachel's Flat
  12. Walking Out of Stride
  13. File Me Away
  14. A Minor Incident
  15. Delta (Little Boy Blues)
  16. Donna & Butzon

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