Badly Drawn Boy / Hour Of Bewilderbeast – CD (Used)

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Author: Badly Drawn Boy

Brand: BeggarsBanquet

Format: Remixes included

Release Date: 27-06-2000

Details: Product DescriptionIn 2000, the techno-folk troubadour Damon Gough, a.k.a. Badly Drawn Boy, won the U.K.-based Mercury Music Prize, Brit-pop’s blue ribbon award. His first full-length, The Hour of Bewilderbeast, is a song cycle relaying the life span of a romantic relationship with dry lyrical humor, soft-touch acoustic strumming, mellow horns, and gossamer strings. Repeated listenings are required, but like a down pillow, as your head sinks into this album, its warm comforts and rewards reveal themselves deep within a melodic cushion. –Beth MassaAmazon.caDerided as a joker, dismissed as an indie elitist–few believed the hype that frothed from critical mouths about Damon Gough, a bleary-eyed, bestubbled Mancunian with an acoustic guitar and a shambolic stage manner. ButThe Hour Of The Bewilderbeast–the debut album by Gough’s alter-ego, Badly Drawn Boy–is utterly superb, an 18-track collection of futurist folk as intimate and well crafted as Nick Drake’sBryter Later. Gough leads a backing band comprising Mancunian post-folk chums Alfie, and together they unveil a breed of rock entirely without bombast–the intimate folds of « Stone On The Water » entrancing, rather than bludgeoning. And it’s funny, too. « I’m dying… » Gough announces on « Everyone’s Stalking ». And then, bourne up on a swell of parping brass, he finishes the sentence with relish: « To put a little sunshine in your life! » Droll, yet touching, seldom immediate, but forever sublime.The Hour Of The Bewilderbeast weaves quiet, but affecting, spells.– Louis Pattison

UPC: 634904013325

EAN: 0634904013325

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood