Pitchfork

Damon Gough, aka Badly Drawn Boy, recently laid down the finishing touches on his new LP, titled Born in the UK. (Correct us if we're wrong, but it sounds like there's a syllable missing there?) The 12-track project follows up 2004's One Plus One Is One and is slated to hit stores October 17 courtesy of Astralwerks (October 16 via EMI in the UK).

One Plus One guest musicians and BDB touring band members Sean McCann and Alex Thomas, as well as vocalist Claire Hewitt, also made contributions to Born.

The disc's first single, "Nothing's Going to Change Your Mind", will be made available on October 2-- although several privately pressed, handmade "'Fish ‘N Chip' style" (quote BDB's website) one-sided seven-inches have already been released to select outlets in three different colors. Each of these exclusive singles will be packaged in a foldout Badly Drawn Boy "newspaper" including a Badly Drawn Boy wooden chip fork.

In addition, any remaining fans can spin the album's title track on Badly Drawn Boy's official website (and we mean "spin" literally here, not just in the crazy rock journalism sense). The page's fancy-ass flash player will feature exclusive custom-built EPs, new tracks, unreleased demos, instrumental numbers, and other cuts from the BDB archive, and will be updated once a month.

And of course, in support of the album's release, Badly Drawn Boy will be embarking on a handful of gigs in both the UK and North America.

Dates:

09-08 Nottingham, England - Rescue Rooms
09-09 Glasgow, Scotland - King Tut's Wah Wah Hut
09-11 Dublin, Ireland - Village
09-13 Oxford, England - Zodiac
09-26 Cardiff, Wales - Get Loaded Festival
09-27 London, England - Get Loaded Festival
10-10 Boston, MA - Paradise
10-11 New York, NY - Hiro Ballroom
10-12 New York, NY - Hiro Ballroom
10-14 Toronto, Ontario - Mod Club
10-16 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
10-18 Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour
10-19 Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour

Born in the UK tracklist:

01 Born in the UK
02 Nothings Going to Change Your Mind
03 The Long Way Round
04 The Way things Used to Be
05 Welcome to the Overground
06 Without a Kiss
07 Time of Times
08 Journey from A to B
09 Degrees of Separation
10 One Last Dance