Damon Gough AKA Badly Drawn Boy has suffered at the hands of critics in recent times, somewhat unfairly in my eyes. However there is no denying that the enormous success he achieved with his 2000 debut album The Hour of Bewilderbeast (which scooped the Mercury Music Prize), and his soundtrack to the 2002 film of Nick Hornby's bestseller About a Boy, seems a distant memory now.
Hopefully for him there is comfort in what surely must be enormous royalty cheques from his work being used as incidental music on all kinds of TV shows. It seems that no travel or DIY programme is complete without Once Around The Block (from his first album) cropping up in a link.
This song from the 2006 album Born in The UK is, to these ears, fit to grace any of his (or anyone else's) albums of the last decade or so.
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