When "It's What He's Thinking" begins, what you think might be chainsaws is really, possibly, the sound of a tape rewinding, with the hum of possibly an air conditioner, fed into a pieced together melody of mundane sounds and musical tones. And then we're cheated. It fades away with a few verses and a chorus. Like it was never even begun. The other songs in Badly Drawn Boy's free EP release, It's What's They're All Thinking, really aren't what I thought they would be at all. "Sirconical" is an example of what one friend described as 'dreamstep,' with enough elements of dub that are mellowed out enough to be ethereal and similar to trance.
It's an interesting mix, and you can hear "It's What He's Thinking" above. The EP can be emailed to you after sacrificing your address at Badly Drawn Boy's Facebook.
For fun facts, here's the tracklisting:
1. In Safe Hands (demo)
2. It's What He's Thinking (Oxidising Hexagons Silver Iodide - Album Re-Dux / Sound Collage by Andy Votel) (short excerpt)
3. The Order Of Things (with Tim And Sam's Tim And The Sam Band With Tim And Sam)
4. A Pure Accident (with Sirconical)
(via Clash Music)