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│██ Artist : Badly Drawn Boy
██ Album : Have You Fed The Fish?
██ Year : 2002
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│██ Genre : Indie Quality : 886kbps avg/441kHz/2 channels
│██ Source : CD Size : 344.38Mb
│██ Encoder : LAME 3.100 -V0 Language : English
:██ Cat. Nr : TNXLCD156 Label : Twisted Nerve
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│▓█ Release date: 2020-01-15 Retail date: 2002-11-05
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1. Coming In To Land 1:37 ██
2. Have You Fed The Fish? 4:18 ██
3. Born Again 4:40 ██
4. 40 Days, 40 Fights 3:55 ██
5. All Possibilities 3:54 ██
6. I Was Wrong 1:10 ██
7. You Were Right 4:52 ██
8. Centrepeace 1:49 ██
9. How? 5:17 ██
10. The Further I Slide 3:47 ██
11. Imaginary Lines 0:45 ██
12. Using Our Feet 4:10 ██
13. Tickets To What You Need 2:48 ██
14. What Is It Now? 2:42 ██
15. Bedside Story 4:51 ██
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██│ e's feted by the British, but his biggest inspiration is Bruce
██│ Springsteen. He cut his teeth on scatterbrained no-fi folk music, but
██│ he made his millions from sentimental balladry and Gap commercials.
██│ He's the scruffiest, gamiest shambler you'll ever set eyes on, yet
██│ he's got Hugh Grant's phone number. The artist exclusively known as
██│ Badly Drawn Boy might as well have stitched "E-N-I-G-M-A" onto that
██│ ethnic knitcap he wears around all security blanket-like. So how do we
██│ approach Have You Fed the Fish? On his terms? Nope. I've been through
██│ this thing an impossible number of times, and the only way to take it
██│ is on ours.
██│
██│ Gough doesn't make it easy on us, though. A goofy, self-deprecating
██│ skit opens the proceedings, followed by a nondescript, throwaway
██│ instrumental called "Coming in to Land". And then we're hit with the
██│ ridiculous title track, which walks what is fastly becoming Badly
██│ Drawn Boy's very own fenceline between execrable REO Speedwagon
██│ pomp-pop and touching, emotive songwriting. It doesn't look pretty so
██│ far.
██│
██│ But then comes "Born Again", an endearing (and rare) rocker where
██│ Gough manages to pull off sincerity without pandering, and the moment
██│ at which he hits his stride. Here, his self-consciousness slips away,
██│ allowing us to relate to the song without envisioning him as the
██│ song's narrator. Which is nice because Gough's more personal offerings
██│ (and I use the word "personal" loosely here) aren't the most original
██│ ever committed to DAT-- they're nice little saccharine ballads which
██│ could be love songs from anybody to anybody. When Damon brings himself
██│ too far into the picture, as often happens on this record, all it
██│ reveals is that he's just not that interesting a character. So it's
██│ moments like this, when he lets go of his ego and just plays the damn
██│ thing, that work best.
██│
██│ "40 Days" is more of the same stuff he kicked out on The Hour of
██│ Bewilderbeat, and about on par with that album's better material. It's
██│ a jaunty narrative, the kind of song you might sing along to in the
██│ morning to help shake a hangover. And despite that the retro-glossy
██│ "All Possibilities" attempts a nods to Love Unlimited and comes out
██│ "Love Boat", his enthusiasm is charming-- the guy clearly loves what
██│ he's doing, and the joy he communicates in the song is infectious.
██│
██│ Of course, the frustrations remain. "I Was Wrong" is a delicate
██│ Elliott Smith type thing with a genuine Nick Drake fragility, but it
██│ disappears before it has a chance to break your heart. Instead, Gough
██│ insists on a failed attempt at cleverness by merging clumsily into a
██│ smoothed-over Fleetwood Mac substitute called "You Were Right". It
██│ apparently wasn't enough for him that this track even had to appear on
██│ the record-- it had to take one of the album's better offerings down
██│ with it. Fortunately, it's not a total loss, as he drops some pretty
██│ entertaining lyrics (which I won't spoil here), and a whistle solo
██│ (can't beat a whistle solo), but the momentum's out the window.
██│
██│ And that's just the thing with Badly Drawn Boy-- he doesn't care about
██│ momentum, or continuity, or a lot of other things that you might quite
██│ reasonably care about when you sit down to listen to his records. He's
██│ going to give you devastating insight and wacky novelty, and by god,
██│ he's going to give them to you in the same song if he damn well
██│ pleases. Which would be fine and everything-- lots of folks, not least
██│ of which is Elvis Costello, have made their names on doing just this--
██│ if he could only pull it off. But he can't, and there's fatal proof of
██│ this in a song like "How?", which dares to spotlight the whole problem
██│ with the lyric, "How can I give you the answers you need/ When all I
██│ possess is a melody?" How, indeed?
██│
██│ So it's up to you, my friend, to opt out or to love unconditionally.
██│ Will you accept Badly Drawn Boy on his terms, no matter how
██│ inscrutable? Will you indulge his penchant for sweetback 70s funk long
██│ enough to embrace the lovely "The Further I Slide"? Will you endure
██│ the music hall diversions of "Tickets to What You Need" to arrive at
██│ the impassioned coda of "Bedside Story"? Will the frustrating
██│ interludes, ill-conceived genre experiments and half-finished ideas
██│ keep you from finding the life-affirming power that lies in the chewy
██│ nougat center of Badly Drawn Boy's music? I'm not sure he's worth it,
██│ personally, considering the ease with which we could toss on a record
██│ from one of his many on-sleeve influences and witness perfection. But
██│ luckily, there's always the 'skip' button.
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██│ URL: http://badlydrawnboy.co.uk
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