Badly Drawn Boy
One Plus One Is One
Label ©  Twisted Nerve
Release Year  2004
Length  55:13
Genre  Indie
Personal Star Rating [1-5]  
  Ref#  B-0049
Bitrate  192 Kbps
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    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 One Plus One Is One  
       4:18  
      2.  
      		 Easy Love  
       3:02  
      3.  
      		 Summertime In Wintertime  
       2:36  
      4.  
      		 This Is That New Song  
       4:07  
      5.  
      		 Another Devil Dies  
       5:01  
      6.  
      		 The Blossoms  
       2:01  
      7.  
      		 Year Of The Rat  
       4:43  
      8.  
      		 Four Leaf Clover  
       4:19  
      9.  
      		 Fewer Words  
       1:13  
      10.  
      		 Logic Of A Friend  
       4:38  
      11.  
      		 Stockport  
       2:37  
      12.  
      		 Life Turned Upside Down  
       3:24  
      13.  
      		 Takes The Glory  
       5:02  
      14.  
      		 Holy Grail  
       8:12  
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      In One Plus One Is One, lovable, romantic, woolly-hat-clad eccentric Damon Gough has produced his best album since he beat Coldplay to Mercury Music Prize winning glory with his debut (The Hour of the Bewilderbeast). With Badly Drawn Boy shunning LA in favour of a Manchester studio and with Andy Votel back at the production helm One Plus One is a wry, self-mocking and exquisitely personal album that finds Gough re-evaluating the sudden fame that found him working with Joan Collins, recording soundtracks and residing in California. The opening title track sets the mood with Gough exhaustedly intoning "Back to being who I was before/ Open up your door/ Give me some peace/ Hold me now/ Everybody is waiting outside." Other highlights include the playfully clumsy rhythms of "Four Leaf Clover" and the epic and ingenious "Holy Grail", the latter coming complete with weaving flute, children's choir, pounding piano and lyrics able to break a heart at half a listen. Charming, dishevelled and unpretentious throughout, One Plus One Is One is a superb comeback that will warm the hearts and delight the ears of his loyal fan base. --Christopher Barrett
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