About a Boy
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Composer: Damon GoughEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2004-11-09
Music Label: Xl Recordings
Soundtracks:
- Exit Stage Right
- Peak You Reach
- Something to Talk About
- Dead Duck
- Above You, Below Me
- I Love N.Y.E.
- Silent Sigh
- Wet, Wet, Wet
- River-Sea-Ocean
- Spat
- Rachel's Flat
- Walking Out of Stride
- File Me Away
- Minor Incident
- Delta (Little Boy Blues)
- Donna & Butzon
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Free Music Review: About a badly drawn boy
Hit: 3 Stars
3 1/2
An impressive array of production arrangement went into rounding this out to be an underrated if imperfect gem in a declining catalog.
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What's a budding musical genius to do in the pent-up lull between albums? Mercury Prize-winning singer-songwriter Badly Drawn Boy (nee Damon Gough), in his spare time between heralded debut THE HOUR OF BEWILDERBEEST, and a follow-up to be released later in 2002, approached the filmmakers adapting Nick Hornby's acclaimed novel ABOUT A BOY about the soundtrack for the film starring Hugh Grant. There's no question to the logic of the combination as Gough's sublimely literate, disaffected yet still charmingly breezy pop music fits the story of life's apparent losers at two stages of life, one an apathetic womanizer approaching his 40s, the other a bullied misfit boy passing into his teens, between whom an unlikely friendship ensues. A folky singer/songwriter scoring songs to help set the tone of a movie about unlikely friendship could stir up memories of Cat Stevens's unreleased soundtrack for "Harold & Maude," a fair enough assessment. In a similar fashion (but in its own way), Badly Drawn Boy's take on ABOUT A BOY weaves a mournful, yet upbeat tapestry drawing from its source material while managing to enrich the story itself. There are even some pop megahit hooks such as in the rolling "Silent Sigh" and in the head-bobbing, ostensible theme song "Something To Talk About."Alternative Rock Music CDs
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