Badly Drawn Boy - I Saw You Walk Away

With this single, BDB has gone back to his roots and where it all began, releasing music on his own label. Released from his new album, and the first part of a trilogy, ‘It’s What I’m Thinking (Part One: Photographing Snowflakes)’, ‘I Saw You Walk Away’ is a lovely string-laden piece of romantic pop in a similar vein to many of Richard Hawley’s effortless croons, which have made him such a household name. Aptly named ‘Bolton’s Bacharach’, its still clear that since ‘The Hour Of Bewilderbeast’, his finest hour, he is capable of churning out brilliant hook-filled melodies that are as hypnotic today as they were in 2000. The new single is wistful, lilting, heart-wrenching and among some of the most beautiful music he has written in years.