Badly Drawn Boy "The Hour of Bewilderbeest" (2000)
Badly Drawn Boy (nee Damon Gough) is someone I was mainly familiar with
due to his work on the "About a Boy" soundtrack and the fact that he
seems to always be wearing a beanie. I had no real feel for him or his music at all.
Gough released a string of EPs before producing this debut
full-length. The 18-track album was said to be a loose concept album
describing the lifespan of a relationship.
Ambitious project as far as the narrative idea, the mix of styles
(technically he's indie folk-pop but there are elements of funk, baroque
pop and rock, amongst others) and as far as the amount of music on the
album.
Can't say it really won me over. It's one of those albums where none of
the music is really unpleasant. Quite the opposite, each track was
nice enough. The problem is that none of it really stuck with me. As
each track finished it was gone from my head and I felt no real
connection to the music. With over an hour of it (and I played it through a couple of times) it made for a cumbersome listening
experience.
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