Badly Drawn Boy - One plus One is One

I've been raving on a lot lately about my love of the folk/alt-country genre and expected that this album would give me more things to bore you with on the subject. I haven't heard much badly drawn boy ( aka Damon Gough ), but what i have heard i have really liked. The film score for About a Boy is a pleasant, country-tinged, wistful experience, and with this album from 2004 i was expecting more of the same. What i got, though musically similar, was a lacklustre snore-a-thon casued by a voice that sounds completely disinterested in what it is singing. It doesn't seem like Damon Gough is trying to put any feeling in his vocal. It's an externely monotone performance. Yes, Gough does naturally have a baritone range, and yes this is his 'sound', but the fact is his other work has feeling to it, where as this album sounds like he is just spitting out the words without any meaning. Compared to this even Nickelback sounds interesting..... ok i take that back.