Compare: Badly Drawn Boy / The Microphones

- Both are the projects of a single individual, and it shows.

- Both are in the habit of tweaking song structures with noise and other unexpected shifts, poss. to reflect psychological states.

- Both have made at least one thematic, continuous-sounding (to me) album widely hailed by indie critics.

- Listening to them supports the suspicion that there are undiscovered 'symphonies' within everyone.

Maybe BDB is what the Microphones would sound like if Phil were British and his influences more obvious.