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BADLY DRAWN BOY "Born In The UK" Reviews
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Release: 17 Oct 2006
Label: EMI
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| The Independent |
Rating: 8.0 |
Working with a compact band, and employingjust piano and guitar with occasional synth-strings or Bacharachian horns, the result is the best Badly Drawn Boy album since the last century, open and honest reflections on identity and family that hang together in a casually conceptual manner that avoids the pretensions of concept albums.
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| Crud Magazine |
Rating: 8.0 |
Sweet, concise and perfectly weighted for the last move and the next. Taking stock of one's life has rarely sounded this prolific.
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| Bullz-eye |
Rating: 8.0 |
The album’s a tad too maudlin, yes, but you could make that argument about any of his records.
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| Jam! |
Rating: 7.0 |
Bruce Springsteen's ears must be burning. First, The Killers tried (and failed) to turn Born to Run into Sam's Town. Now, the last guy you'd expect to harbour a Bruce jones -- eternally tuqued U.K. popster Damon Gough, aka Badly Drawn Boy -- pays homage to the Boss on his fifth disc Born in the U.K.
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| MusicOMH.com |
Rating: 6.0 |
When Damon Gough first emerged from Bolton a few years ago, we knew we had a real maverick on our hands. There was that name for a start - endearingly shambolic and with bagfuls of charm, the resolutely anti-star image of tea-cosy hat and scruffy beard, and the sheer ambition of his debut album The Hour Of Bewilderbeast - a record which seemed to be all over the place and yet remarkably focused.
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| Guardian |
Rating: 6.0 |
Its softly expressed mix of melancholy and hope is classic Badly Drawn Boy.
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| Times Online |
Rating: 6.0 |
Gough’s first album for EMI is an attempt to take a grip on a career that has drifted off course, caught in the undertow created by a catalogue of singer- songwriters.
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| Dotmusic |
Rating: 6.0 |
A simple, honest album, in other words. Here's hoping.
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| Uncut |
Rating: 6.0 |
With his shambling aesthetic hijacked by the likes of James Morrison and a host of sparky acoustic newcomers lurking in the wings, the need for Damon Gough to reproduce the form of 2000 debut "The Hour Of Bewilderbeast" is obvious.
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| PitchFork |
Rating: 2.8 |
Since his early EPs and debut LP, though, his gags-per-song count has escalated, reaching its unfortunate peak on Born.
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