One Plus One Is One

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One Plus One Is One
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Studio album by
Released21 June 2004
RecordedJune 2003
StudioMoolah Rouge Studio, Stockport, UK
Genre Folk rock, indie folk
Length55:13 (61:37 U.S version)
Label XL Recordings, Twisted Nerve Records
Producer Badly Drawn Boy, Andy Votel
Badly Drawn Boy chronology
Have You Fed the Fish?
(2002)
One Plus One Is One
(2004)
Born in the U.K.
(2006)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 60/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Dotmusic 8/10 [3]
musicOMH (favorable) [4]
Pitchfork Media 3/10 [5]

One Plus One Is One is the fourth studio album by Badly Drawn Boy, released in 2004. It is his last album for XL Recordings.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "One Plus One Is One" – 4:18
  2. "Easy Love" – 3:02
  3. "Summertime in Wintertime" – 3:02
  4. "This Is That New Song" – 4:07
  5. "Another Devil Dies" – 5:01
  6. "The Blossoms" – 2:01
  7. "Year of the Rat" – 4:43
  8. "Four Leaf Clover" – 4:19
  9. "Fewer Words" – 1:13
  10. "Logic of a Friend" – 4:38
  11. "Stockport" – 2:37
  12. "Life Turned Upside Down" – 3:24
  13. "Take the Glory" – 5:02
  14. "Holy Grail" – 8:13
  15. "Don't Ask Me I'm Only the President" (U.S. version only) – 1:36
  16. "Plan-B" (U.S. version only) – 4:47

Personnel

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References

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  2. Phares, Heather. One Plus One Is One at AllMusic. Retrieved 19 December 2011.
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