About a Boy
Soundtrack by Badly Drawn Boy
Released	April 23, 2002
Genre	Rock and Roll/Folk Music
Length	44:22
Label	Stoinked Paramount Recordings/ Viacom Records/ Epic Records
Producer	Badly Drawn Boy, Tom Rothrock, Steve McLaughlin
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link musicOMH.com (Positive) link Pitchfork (4.9/10) link
Badly Drawn Boy chronology
The Hour of Bewilderbeast (2000) About A Boy (2002) Have You Fed the Fish? (2002)
Alternate cover

About a Boy is an album that was released by Badly Drawn Boy (Damon Gough) in 2002. The album was the soundtrack to the movie About a Boy. Unusually, Gough was chosen to compose and perform the entire soundtrack for the movie.

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Track listing

1. "Exit Stage Right" – 0:21
2. "A Peak You Reach" – 4:33
3. "Something to Talk About" – 3:40
4. "Dead Duck" – 0:46
5. "Above You, Below Me" – 2:40
6. "I Love N.Y.E." – 3:20
7. "Silent Sigh" – 4:44
8. "Wet, Wet, Wet" – 0:42
9. "River-Sea-Ocean" – 2:24
10. "S.P.A.T." – 3:24
11. "Rachel's Flat" – 0:34
12. "Walking Out of Stride" – 1:48
13. "File Me Away" – 3:23
14. "A Minor Incident" – 3:44
15. "Delta (Little Boy Blues)" – 4:00
16. "Donna & Blitzen" – 4:19