Banana Skin Shoes

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Banana Skin Shoes
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Studio album by
Released22 May 2020
StudioEve Studios, Stockport
Length50:40
Label One Last Fruit
Producer Gethin Pearson
Badly Drawn Boy chronology
Being Flynn
(2012)
Banana Skin Shoes
(2020)

Banana Skin Shoes is the ninth studio album by Badly Drawn Boy, released on 22 May 2020. [1] The track "Is This a Dream?" was released in January 2020. [2] Gough called the song "a sound collage of chaos and confusion to reflect the ridiculous times we live in... A deliberately cartoonesque sonic poke in the eye, to those in whom we place trust, yet instead supply constant barrage of misinformation followed by bad decisions." [3]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 81/100 [4]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Exclaim! 7/10 [6]

Banana Skin Shoes was met with "universal acclaim" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 81, based on 7 reviews. [4]

Track listing

Track listing adapted from Tidal. [7]

Banana Skin Shoes track listing
No.TitleMusicLength
1."Banana Skin Shoes"
  • Damon Gough
  • Gethin Pearson
2:49
2."Is This a Dream?"
  • Gough
4:08
3."I Just Wanna Wish You Happiness"
  • Gough
3:34
4."I'm Not Sure What It Is"
  • Gough
3:32
5."Tony Wilson Said"
  • Gough
4:18
6."You and Me Against the World"
  • Gough
3:35
7."I Need Someone to Trust"
  • Gough
3:57
8."Note to Self"
  • Gough
3:36
9."Colours"
  • Gough
4:00
10."Funny Time of Year"
  • Gough
3:04
11."Fly on the Wall"
  • Gough
3:32
12."Never Change"
  • Gough
  • Max Pope
3:19
13."Appletree Boulevard"
  • Gough
3:07
14."I'll Do My Best"
  • Gough
4:09

Charts

Chart performance for Banana Skin Shoes
Chart (2020)Peak
position
Scottish Albums (OCC) [8] 9
UK Albums (OCC) [9] 34
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [10] 4

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