About a Boy (soundtrack)

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About a Boy
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Soundtrack album by
Released8 April 2002
Genre Folk rock, folk pop
Length44:22
Label
Producer Badly Drawn Boy, Tom Rothrock, Steve McLaughlin
Badly Drawn Boy chronology
The Hour of Bewilderbeast
(2000)
About a Boy
(2002)
Have You Fed the Fish?
(2002)
Singles from About a Boy
  1. "Silent Sigh"
    Released: 25 March 2002
  2. "Something to Talk About"
    Released: 10 June 2002
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
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Metacritic 79/100 [1]
Review scores
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Entertainment Weekly B+ [4]
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NME 8/10 [7]
Pitchfork 4.9/10 [8]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [10]
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About a Boy is the second album by English singer-songwriter Badly Drawn Boy (Damon Gough), released in 8 April 2002 under Twisted Nerve Records and XL Recordings, and in America under the short-lived ARTISTdirect Records, as the soundtrack to the film About a Boy . Gough was chosen to compose and perform the entire soundtrack.

Contents

In his book 31 Songs , About a Boy author Nick Hornby lists Gough's track "A Minor Incident" as one of the songs that has had an effect on his life.

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Exit Stage Right"0:21
2."A Peak You Reach"4:33
3."Something to Talk About"3:41
4."Dead Duck"0:45
5."Above You, Below Me"2:40
6."I Love NYE"3:19
7."Silent Sigh"4:44
8."Wet, Wet, Wet"0:42
9."River, Sea, Ocean"2:24
10."S.P.A.T."3:24
11."Rachel's Flat"0:34
12."Walking Out of Stride"1:48
13."File Me Away"3:23
14."A Minor Incident"3:44
15."Delta (Little Boy Blues)"4:00
16."Donna and Blitzen"4:19

Personnel

Additional musicians

Charts

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