Badly Drawn Boy: Is There Nothing We Could Do? | CD review

His first new material in three years, Damon Gough's new album is music from and inspired by Caroline Aherne's new TV film The Fattest Man in Britain. Like 2002's About a Boy, it's a collection of delightful incidental music such as "All the Trimmings", and more traditionally structured songs like the title track. Against the odds, it hangs together neatly as a complete album. This leaves Gough, after a couple of years in self-confessed bewilderment, departing the decade as he entered it, on his...

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