Badly Drawn Boy: It's What I'm Thinking: Part 1 - Photographing Snowflakes | CD review

(One Last Fruit)A decade after winning the Mercury with The Hour of Bewilderbeast, Damon Gough is back on his own label. In between lies a curious career path of film soundtracks, a disastrous switch from XL to EMI (which produced just one album) and eventual disillusion, all of which spills into his fifth proper album. Producer Stephen Hilton's gently sympathetic backdrop of quietly pattering drum machines and lush strings uses Gough's plaintive vocals as a texture and would probably cause seiz...

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