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Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of Bewilderbeast Audio CD

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Badly Drawn Boy Band: Badly Drawn Boy
Title: The Hour of Bewilderbeast
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Release Date: 2000-10-03
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Shining 2: Everybody's Stalking 3: Bewilder 4: Fall in a River 5: Camping Next to Water 6: Stone on the Water 7: Another Pearl 8: Body Rap 9: Once Around the Block 10: This Song 11: Bewilderbeast 12: Magic in the Air 13: Cause a Rockslide 14: Pissing in the Wind 15: Blistered Heart 16: Disillusion 17: Say It Again 18: Epitaph

Beast actually only has about 35 minutes
. 3 1/2

Ambitiously comfy slab of agreeable folk-adelia and glistening pop-rock which can bare no shame does have a sketchy third quarter (well pretty much, a stronger first side is glaring) and a few derivative off-ramps, but the lengthy bewilderment of a debut was to become a once promising songwriter-arranger's most ambitiously intriguing offer.


One of BDB's best
Many songs remind me of the Beatles. This is one of BDB's best works.

Matt Zarnstorff.


Badly Drawn Boy... simply the best...
The way he uses all kind of instruments and his lyrics are amazing. . few have the genius this guy has.


I hated this at first, but it grows on you - this is unique and fun indie pop!
I'll admit that at first I didn't really like this album as most of the songs weren't as instantly catchy as "Everybody's Stalking" and "Disillusion" (the two standouts and my favorite tracks on the album). Anyone who's into indie pop probably has heard the name Badly Drawn Boy before (this album won best album of the year over Massive Attack's "Mezzanine" in the 1999 British music awards). If you give the rest some time, though, you'll find that not only are they unique and interesting, but they're all very good! Badly Drawn Boy, aka Damon Gough, has a pretty likable voice that suits the music very well, and although he's not perfect he does a fine job. Musically the album is pretty hard to describe - it's a mixture of indie rock, indie pop and other genres that I'm not sure how to describe. He uses some slightly unique instruments (the names of which I don't know) that give everything a strange and new sound. Basically, the whole album sounds fresh. The lyrics are also surprisingly good here and very memorable in some of the songs ("Disillusion" especially). I'm not entirely sure what all the songs are about yet, but I know that most people will like paying attention to his words. The only complaint I could possibly make about the album is that the production could use some work (the songs are a littly fuzzy and lo-fi, but perhaps that was his intention?). Despite any minor grievances I might have, "The Hour Of Bewilderbeast" remains a great album that all indie pop fans should own (non-genre fans will probably like it, too)! Absolutely recommended!

Highlights include:
"The Shining"
"Everybody's Stalking"
"Disillusion"
the rest are good, too.


Great Album
What a nice album, with so entertaining melodies. Well, Badly Drawn Boy does it again. This is the kind of music you want to listen while traveling through a beautiful landscape. This is music to relax and to sing along. Just when you hear the first notes of "The Shining" your body shivers. It's such a complete album. My fave tracks are: The Shining, Everybody's Stalking, Camping Next to Water, Stone on the Water and Magic in the Air. If you like BDB previous albums, don't hesitate in buying this one. Also you might like to check Andrew Bird. .


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