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Boy Reviews

Overall Rating
8

Boy

1980

19 Sources have reviewed this album

9/10

All Music Guide

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It's difficult to imagine how Badly Drawn Boy could've improved on The Hour of Bewilderbeast any better than this astonishing work.

9/10

PopMatters

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A gorgeous, (let me say it again) gorgeous album that totally stands on its own.... About a Boy is one of the best albums of the year.

9/10

Neumu.net

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With About a Boy, Badly Drawn boy has grown up.

9/10

Dot Music

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It's an album that feels like a watershed somehow, a significant step onwards.

8.5/10

Entertainment Weekly

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A mix of songs and themes balancing obsessive craft with flippant style. [3 May 2002, p.89]

8/10

CultureDose.net

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Somewhere within the radio-friendly, xylophone-banging tracks, Badly Drawn Boy finds space for artistic experimentation and growth.

8/10

Q Magazine

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A vibe of maverick playfulness married to fabulous tunes. [Apr 2002, p.106]

8/10

Alternative Press

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A collection of stylistically diverse tunes that is cohesive and refreshing. [Jul 2002, p.76]

8/10

New Musical Express

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Ambition, imagination, charm and grace - by any measure, 'About A Boy' hits the heights.

8/10

Blender

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Badly Drawn Boy pulls off the job with panache, tipping his hat to Nick Drake, Burt Bacharach and acoustic-era Bob Dylan. [Jun/Jul 2002, p.103]

8/10

Austin Chronicle

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About a Boy is that rarest of bewildering beasties, the soundtrack that stands by itself.

7.5/10

E! Online

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The songs lack the emotional depth of Bewilderbeast, but the jaunty folk-pop is just so much fun.

7/10

Mojo

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The seemingly effortless confidence displayed throughout is startling. [Apr 2002, p.108]

7/10

The Onion (A.V. Club)

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If About A Boy doesn't quite have the anything-can-happen vibe of Bewilderbeast, it still reveals a remarkably gifted artist.

7/10

Playlouder

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It's not all pleasant.... However, there are some total gems, as you'd expect.

7/10

Splendid

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The songs on About a Boy are all exactly what we've come to expect from Gough, and the disc's lack of cohesion is its only real failing.

6/10

Rolling Stone

The movie-cue instrumentals, underdeveloped sketches and an incongruous fake cop-show theme prevent About a Boy from fully holding together as an album, but at the core of this soundtrack are some elegant, fully realized songs.

6/10

Uncut

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Light and airy, pretty in parts, but devoid of muscle, grit or originality. [May 2002, p.96]

5/10

Pitchfork

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Every card Gough plays is painfully transparent from the first time you play the disc. It's elementary stuff. It sounds manufactured, refined, cosmetic and sterile; in a word, silicone, like a pair of Badly Sculpted Breast Implants.

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