One Plus One Is One

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One Plus One Is One
Studio album by Badly Drawn Boy
Released	June 21, 2004
Recorded	June 2003, Moulin Rouge Studio, Stockport, UK
Genre	Rock and roll, folk
Length	55:13 (61:37 U.S version)
Label	XL Recordings, Twisted Nerve
Producer	Badly Drawn Boy, Andy Votel
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link musicOMH.com (positive) link Pitchfork Media (3.0/10) link
Badly Drawn Boy chronology
Have You Fed the Fish? (2002) One Plus One Is One (2004) Born in the U.K. (2006)

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

Damon Gough (Badly Drawn Boy) said about the album: "It’s still about relationships but not so much about just me and Claire this time, it’s about wider friendships. I’m asking people not to wish their lives away. But most of the time, through the songs, I’m telling myself these things. I can be quite a dark person, a born worrier, and I think that sometimes these songs are a message to myself to see the brighter side. The last album was thematic too but borne mostly out of the frustrations of being away from home. For this record I was at home and now it seems I’m looking out at the world from there."

[edit] 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