Music Capsule Review

Have You Fed the Fish? (2002)

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Release Date: Nov 05, 2002; Lead Performance: Badly Drawn Boy

B+

By David Browne

David Browne

David Browne is EW's music critic and author of ''Dream Brother: The Lives & Music of Jeff & Tim Buckley'' (HarperCollins)

Damon Gough's third album is the sound of a turtle emerging from its shell. Unlike his About a Boy soundtrack, Fish? is jaunty and sonically expansive, even with lyrics that are alternately wry (''It moves me to tears/Like a horror film'') and rueful (the way he mourns both a relationship and his fave deceased rockers in the exquisite ''You Were Right''). The abnormal-for-him buoyancy wears thin, but Gough ultimately outpaces most of his U.K. sensitive-soul peers.

Posted Nov 29, 2002

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