Detailed item info | Track listing | 1. Swimming Pool
2. Born in the U.K.
3. Degrees of Separation
4. Welcome to the Overground
5. Journey From a to B
6. Nothing's Gonna Change Your Mind
7. Promises
8. Way Things Used to Be, The
9. Without a Kiss
10. Long Way Around, The (Swimming Pool)
11. Walk You Home
12. Time of Times, The
13. One Last Dance
| | Details | | Producer: | Nick Franglen | | Distributor: | EMI Music Distribution | | Recording type: | Studio | | Recording mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
| | Album notes | Badly Drawn Boy: Damon Gough (vocals, various instruments).
Additional personnel: Sean McCann (bass guitar); Alex Thomas (drums).
Recording information: 2006.
Easily the finest Badly Drawn Boy album since 2002's ABOUT A BOY soundtrack, BORN IN THE U.K. finds the British alternative-pop artist (a.k.a. Damon Gough) playing to his strengths after a period of creative stagnation. While the title track (a nod to Gough's musical hero, Bruce Springsteen) is energetic and assured as it careens over a Beatlesque drum line, "Nothing's Going to Change Your Mind" is a lush, plaintive ballad that reinforces earlier comparisons to Harry Nilsson.
Although BORN IN THE U.K. doesn't feature the overt eclecticism of Gough's lauded debut, THE HOUR OF BEWILDERBEAST, it benefits not only from Gough's renewed focus on crafting compelling pop songs, but from a new creative foil, Lemon Jelly's Nick Franglen, who helped to flesh out the album's arrangements. Although the record will readily appeal to Badly Drawn Boy diehards, it should also win over some lapsed fans, and garner some new admirers as well.
DVD Features:
Track List
Documentary
1. Born In The U.K. (Video)
2. The Time Of Times (Acoustic)
3. Journey From A To B (Rehearsal)
4. Welcome To The Overground (Instrumental Rehearsal)
5. Born In The U.K. (Acoustic)
| | Editorial reviews | 3 stars out of 5 -- This is a collection of melodic, quality pop songs that lean to the grown-up side of things, with a reflective singer given to nostalgia and the kind of unease felt when 99 per cent of everything seems all right.
Mojo
Tracks like 'Nothing's Gonna Change Your Mind' and 'One Last Dance' are fun reminders that Gough's whimsical pop chops are still in working order...
Alternative Press
4 stars out of 5 -- [T]he sweeping piano-led melodies, Gough's powerful belief in family and his warm croon transform regret into hard-won optimism....A hugely moving affirmation of life.
Q
3 stars out of 5 -- [C]rafted with care and talent....BORN IN THE U.K. has some lovely idiosyncratic moments...
Rolling Stone
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