Badly Drawn Boy – One Plus One Is One - Original 2004 Vinyl LP
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Description
An original vinyl copy of the Badly Drawn Boy LP One Plus One Is One.
2004 - Twisted Nerve – TNXLLP179.
Sleeve is in fine condition with minor mark near hype sticker. VG+
Vinyl is clear of marks and looks to have had little play. EX
A visual grade is given, if there are any marks I will mention and play through. If the vinyl does not play well on your player I will take back, no problems.
Back to being who I was before…", this is the phrase with which “One Plus One Is One” opens, the fourth effort by Badly Drawn Boy. He seems to want to make it clear right from the start, “I am back to being who I was.” I believe him, firstly because there is no one like him today in “perfidious Albion”, and secondly because his latest album “One Plus One Is One”, which has been playing incessantly in my stereo, proves him perfectly right.
Having parted ways with producer Tim Rothrock, who had worked with Beck and Elliot Smith and had produced Damon's “About A Boy” and “Have You Fed The Fish”, the XL Recording standard-bearer hands over the mixing to his friend Andy Votel, who had already produced Damon's award-winning debut. The return to Low-Fi, reversing the trend of “Have You Fed The Fish” which offered more conventionally Pop songs, along with the change in the production room, allows him a striking return to his debut “The Hour of the Bewilderbeast”.
Recorded in Manchester, “One Plus One Is One” features as usual a vast and varied range of instruments, though always well balanced and never pointless. All played along the lines of piano and guitar, in the best folk tradition, the album features as its only whim an overuse of brass instruments, at times reminiscent of Jethro Tull. Listen to believe, after a piano-voice opening in the most inspired Elton John style, the central part of “Another Devil Dies” or the opening of “The Blossom”. Romantic and dreamer songwriting, as it has accustomed us over time. Indeed, how can one not be moved by the romantic lyrics of “This Is That New Song” where Badly seems to fulfill a promise from 20 years before. Finally, the children's choir is effective in the encompassing “Year Of The Rat” and the final “Holy Grail”.
Tracklist
A1, , One Plus One Is One, 4:18
A2, , Easy Love, 3:02
A3, , Summertime In Wintertime, 2:36
A4, , This Is That New Song, 4:08
A5, , Another Devil Dies, 5:01
A6, , The Blossoms, 2:01
A7, , Year Of The Rat, 4:43
B1, , Four Leaf Clover, 4:19
B2, , Fewer Words, 1:27
B3, , Logic Of A Friend, 4:39
B4, , Stockport, 2:37
B5, , Life Turned Upside Down, 3:24
B6, , Take The Glory, 5:02
B7, , Holy Grail, 8:12
All vinyl's come packed with cardboard stiffeners in a sturdy vinyl mailer inside a poly mailer.
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