badly drawn boy

This review is directed towards Badly Drawn Boy, more specifically the About A Boy soundtrack. It's a match made in heaven: the lovable, childlike songs of Damon Gough (aka Badly Drawn Boy) and the lovable, oddly childlike characters of NIck Hornby. Badly Drawn Boy's soundtrack to About A Boy achieves  the rare trick of complementing the movie's moods and themes while standing nicely on it's own, thank you. The production polishes some of the eccentricities from Badly Drawn Boy's scruffy lo-fi sound, but that's ,mostly a good thing. The melodies are gorgeous and instrumentations lush. Even doubters will find it hard to resist the upbeat, hooky "Something To Talk About," while "Silent Sigh," with its delicate piano and wistful, sighing vocal, is four and a half minutes of sheer aural pleasure. Unusually for a soundtrack, nothing about this project caries even a whiff of filler. Even the incidental music beguiles, and the more full realized songs suggest that Gough's brilliance benefits from a bit of restraint. This is a start to finish listen that leaves you wanting more.