Badly Drawn Boy will take his new album, One Plus One Is One, out for a seventeen-date U.S. tour starting October 5th in Vancouver.

Though One Plus One Is One finds BDB (a.k.a. Damon Gough) incorporating a mini-symphony of glockenspiels, accordions, cellos, trumpets and a whole lotta flute, the record is still a quieter affair than his last set, 2002's Have You Fed the Fish?. "I really wanted this album to be the most minimal I've made," Gough told Rolling Stone. "It's still got my hallmarks, but it's definitely not as grand as Fish. I feel different, I feel more mature, and I think it sounds like a more mature record."

"Another Devil Dies" captures Badly Drawn Boy's new dynamic. The song starts as a simple piano and vocal tune before unfolding into a lush, Bacharachian, rumba-tinged pop song with brass, bells and a flute. "It started out with me wanting it to sound like mariachi trumpets," he said. "But I didn't like it in that world, so I re-dressed it and played it on piano. I like a bit of cheese, and Burt's not afraid to be a little gratuitous with melody. That's kind of where I live in my head with music -- I'm a sucker for melody."

Another track, "Year of the Rat," features the big, booming vocals of the Stockport Music Project (STOMP). Badly Drawn Boy shot a video for the tune, which is in rotation on MTV and MTV2.

The month-long tour wraps October 26th in Houston.

Badly Drawn Boy tour dates:

10/5: Vancouver, Commodore Ballroom
10/6: Walla Walla, WA, Whitman College
10/7: Portland, OR, Aladdin Theater
10/8: Seattle, Showbox
10/10: San Francisco, Fillmore
10/12: Los Angeles, Avalon
10/13: San Diego, Cane's
10/14: Phoenix, Marquee Theater
10/16: Salt Lake City, In the Venue
10/17: Boulder, Fox Theater
10/18: Lawrence, KS, Liberty Hall
10/20: Minneapolis, Pantages
10/21: Chicago, Vic Theater
10/22: St. Louis, Pagent
10/24: Dallas, Gypsy Tea Room
10/25: Austin, La Zona Rosa
10/26: Houston, Meridien