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 | Title : About a Boy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Author : Badly Drawn Boy
Release Date : 20020423
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $17.98
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Editorial Reviews :
Damon Gough, the man behind Badly Drawn Boy, opted to score the film adaptation of Nick Hornby's novel About a Boy instead of recording a regular follow-up to 2000's Hour of Bewilderbeast. Interspersed with short instrumental interludes that serve as lovely miniatures, the songs evoke the book's jaunty mood and (fittingly for something based on a Nick Hornby story) incorporate strands of pop music from the past 40 years with uncommon grace. 'Something to Talk About' borrows from Brian Wilson and Paul McCartney yet doesn't feel derivative; 'Above You, Below Me' is a charming waltz; the intoxicating 'Donna and Blitzen' is pure Phil Spector-does-Christmas. Inspired meetings of this magnitude between film and music are rare enough that this one should be celebrated to the high heavens.
Buyer Reviews :
Damon Gough aka Badly Drawn Boy's debut, The Hour of Bewilderbeast, was a sprawling song cycle, by turns beautifully aching and terrifying. His soundtrack work for About a Boy is the perfect follow-up - another song cycle dictated by the narrative strictures of Nick Hornby's novel. Instead of confining him, though, Badly Drawn Boy is liberated. He finds universal truths in character specifics. The unflinchingly unsentimental story about a 30-something slacker who poses as a single father to pick up women through single-parent groups, and the complications which ensue, allows Gough to underscore the clipped emotions with expressive songs (both lyric and instrumental). Romantic entanglements and confusions ebb and flow through sixteen songs, culminating in the grand Phil Spector homage 'Donna & Blitzen' - one of the best Oscar-bait ballads heard in quite some time.
(by Dan Loughry)
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