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Track Listings
| 1. Coming Into Land |
| 2. Have You Fed The Fish |
| 3. Born Again |
| 4. 40 Days 40 Fights |
| 5. All Possibilities |
| 6. I Was Wrong |
| 7. You Were Right |
| 8. CentrePeace |
| 9. How? |
| 10. The Further I Slide |
| 11. Imaginary Lines |
| 12. Using Our Feet |
| 13. Tickets To What You Need |
| 14. What Is It Now? |
| 15. Bedside Story |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
It's hard to remember, listening to Have You Fed the Fish, that Badly Drawn Boy was once derided as lo-fi. On Damon Gough's third album, everything is writ large, his wobbly and whimsical songs transformed into bombastic epics. Finally, his much-vaunted Springsteen obsession starts making sense. For this is Gough's LA record, an extravagant conceit that really shouldn't work but, more often than not, does. Essentially, it's big music about simple things, love letters from California back home to his wife in Manchester. So when he tackles the sweet mundanities of domestic life on the title track, he plasters sentiments usually found on post-it notes across 40-foot billboards. The results are oddly moving, especially on "You Were Right", where dreams of a love triangle with Madonna and the Queen and memories of various celebrity deaths become a meditation on not taking anything for granted. Frequently, it's absurd, too: especially the crotchety funk of "Using Our Feet" and the Nilsson-ish Vaudeville of "Tickets to What You Need". Beware, though, because the grandiose production makes Gough's customarily fine songs not quite as accessible as usual--a few listens are needed before their charms cut through the flash. --John Mulvey
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'Have You Fed The Fish' is the third album from the Bolton-born, eclectic singer-songwriter, Damon Gough. It follows his soundtrack to the 2002 film adaptation of Nick Hornby's novel, 'About A Boy'. The single, 'You Were Right', is included.
It's hard to remember, listening to Have You Fed the Fish, that Badly Drawn Boy was once derided as lo-fi. On Damon Gough's third album, everything is writ large, his wobbly and whimsical songs transformed into bombastic epics. Finally, his much-vaunted Springsteen obsession starts making sense. For this is Gough's LA record, an extravagant conceit that really shouldn't work but, more often than not, does. Essentially, it's big music about simple things, love letters from California back home to his wife in Manchester. So when he tackles the sweet mundanities of domestic life on the title track, he plasters sentiments usually found on post-it notes across 40-foot billboards. The results are oddly moving, especially on "You Were Right", where dreams of a love triangle with Madonna and the Queen and memories of various celebrity deaths become a meditation on not taking anything for granted. Frequently, it's absurd, too: especially the crotchety funk of "Using Our Feet" and the Nilsson-ish Vaudeville of "Tickets to What You Need". Beware, though, because the grandiose production makes Gough's customarily fine songs not quite as accessible as usual--a few listens are needed before their charms cut through the flash. --John Mulvey
Description
'Have You Fed The Fish' is the third album from the Bolton-born, eclectic singer-songwriter, Damon Gough. It follows his soundtrack to the 2002 film adaptation of Nick Hornby's novel, 'About A Boy'. The single, 'You Were Right', is included.
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