Name: The Hour of Bewilderbeast - 15
Brand: Badly Drawn Boy

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

TNXLCD695

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Discs

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Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2016-01-22

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Beggars Group

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

634904069520

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2 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Badly Drawn Boy

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Released in May 2000 to widespread acclaim 'The Hour Of Bewilderbeast' beat other shortlisted nominees including Coldplay Doves Leftfield and Richard Ashcroft to that year's Mercury Music Prize Like all great debuts it captured the zeitgeist of the moment managing that rare feat of sounding both completely of its time and utterly timeless The album went platinum and Damon was then asked to write the soundtrack the film of Nick Hornby's book 'About A Boy' which became a huge hit He went on to release eight studio albums over 12 years before taking a break over the last couple of years and now he's back with a fresh focus It's an album that shouldn't really work on paper a bewildering assortment of leftfield folk ditties poetic shanties experimental passages and nocturnal piano ballads some recorded in bedrooms some in studios with a myriad of different oddball production techniques and numerous personnel playing most instruments known to man and several not However underpinned by the genius songwriting of Damon Gough and his intuitive ear for melody it worked beautifully and charmed a generation of music critics and music lovers Damon arrived fully formed yet badly drawn an overnight success which had taken years simultaneously a little shambolic and in possession of grand vision somehow both cocksure and yet selfdoubting all of which only endured him to a public growing tired of the overpolished sheen of late 90s 2CD Deluxe Double CD Version with 16 Bonus Tracks and new artwork 2LP Double Vinyl just featuring the original album

The Hour of Bewilderbeast - 15

Music US