About a Boy Soundtrack (Reis)
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Free Music Review: Breath taking
Hit: 5 Stars
THIS MOVIE IS A GREAT INSPIRATION FOR ANYONE TRYING TO TURN THEIR LIFE AROUND.Free Music Review: About A Badly Drawn Boy
Hit: 4 Stars
Badly Drawn boy tackled a different kind of project in this album -- the soundtrack for the amusing movie adaptation of Nick Hornby's novel, "About A Boy." His blend of melodic folk-pop and all-too-brief instrumentals are just like the novel -- bright, breezy and subtle. What's even better? "About A Boy Soundtrack" is just as good when separated from the film.
It opens with a sunny piano melody, just a cute little ditty that doesn't last half a minute. Then it shifts into the mellow, sharp keyboard pop of "A Peak You Reach," before blossoming into a blend of poppy folk (the soothing "Something To Talk About" and fun "River Sea Ocean") and folky pop (the slightly eerie "Silent Sigh and bouncy "File Me Away").
Sprinkled through these are instrumental interludes, some less than a minute long. But despite their brevity, these little instrumentals manage to feel well-rounded and full. One a particular highlight is "Delta (Little Boy Blues)," an enchanting pop tune augmented by horns and what sounds like an organ.
No wonder Nick Hornby wanted Badly Drawn Boy (real name: Damon Gough) for the soundtrack to "About a Boy." While there are occasional lapses -- "S.P.A.T" is a fragmented electronic mess -- the mellow, autumnal sound of this soundtrack is just entrancing. Yes, the Hugh Grant movie about a Peter-Pannish thirtysomething was good -- but the music alone is a prize.
Gough is to be commended for having his songs "flow" into one another -- it feels a bit like a sprawling, many-toned song that has been carefully divided into bits and pieces, then stitched back together. It doesn't have the experimental feel of his non-soundtrack albums, but the delicate piano, guitar, strings, harmonica and blazing brass blend into a smooth, mellow sound.
Gough's voice sounds sort of... well, timid, as if he doesn't want to make it too prominent in the music. But his voice is a pleasant voice, almost childlike in its exuberance and emotion. Which makes his sometimes melancholy songs sound even more so, when he sings almost pleadingly, "Silent sigh, silent sigh silent sigh/Keeps down all move me down/Could we love each other?"
It's no "Hour of Bewilderbeast." Instead, this breezy pop album is "About A Boy," a "bewilderbeast" in its own category. Badly Drawn Boy's second release is a thoroughly pretty, sweet and often entrancing creation. Bravo, Damon.
Free Music Review: Just OK
Hit: 3 Stars
The songs and music here were written by Badly Drawn Boy (Damon Gough), and while a couple of tracks are outstanding, a lot of it turns out to only be good as background music. To be fair, of course, that is what it was intended for, but I thought it would be more of a "lsten to" than it has turned out to be. You find yourself wanting to forward to the good songs, or to program just to play a couple. One outstanding track is "A Minor Incident", But I think I would consider downloading that as an MP3 in lieu of buying the CD.Free Music Review: About A Boy Soundtrack
Hit: 3 Stars
Saw the movie and loved the theme song. The rest of the soundtrack is okay - all done by the same band - Badly Drawn Boy. Like I said, the rest is average. Still glad to have it if for just the one song.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.