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With One Plus One Is One, lovable, romantic, woolly-hat-clad eccentric Damon Gough has produced his best album since his glorious debut.
With Badly Drawn Boy shunning LA in favor of a Manchester studio and with Andy Votel back at the production
helm, One Plus One is a wry, self-mocking, and exquisitely personal album that finds Gough re-evaluating the sudden fame that found him
working with Joan Collins, recording soundtracks, and residing in California.The opening title track sets the mood with Gough exhaustedly
intoning "Back to being who I was before/ Open up your door/ Give me some peace/ Hold me now/ Everybody is waiting outside." Other
highlights include the playfully clumsy rhythms of "Four Leaf Clover" and the epic and ingenious "Holy Grail," the latter coming complete
with weaving flute, children's choir, pounding piano, and lyrics able to break a heart at half a listen. Charming, disheveled, and
unpretentious throughout, One Plus One Is One is a superb comeback that will warm the hearts and delight the ears of his loyal fan base.
TRACK LISTING
1 One Plus One Is One
2 Easy Love
3 Summertime in Wintertime
4 This Is That New Song
5 Another Devil Dies
6 The Blossoms
7 Year of the Rat
8 Four Leaf Clover
9 Fewer Words
10 Logic of a Friend
11 Stockport
12 Life Turned Upside Down
13 Take the Glory
14 Holy Grail
15 Don't Ask Me I'm Only the President
16 Plan B
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