Kevin Bronson on November 15th, 2010

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Badly Drawn Boy’s strangely mercurial career seems upward bound again. The Mercury Prize winner (in 2000, for “The Hour of the Bewilderbeast), who went on score the movie “About a Boy” and proceeded to go through two record labels in the middle of last decade, in October released the first of a three-album trilogy, “It’s What I’m Thinking Pt.1 ”“ Photographing Snowflakes.” The 41-year-old songwriter, born Damon Gough, credits his work on the 2009 movie “The Fattest Man in Britain” with sparking a new burst of songwriting, and the early returns are in: The new album is emotionally delicate and beautifully restrained.

||| Live: Badly Drawn Boy plays Dec. 15 and 16 at the Troubadour.

||| Download: After the jump, trade your e-mail address for a free download “This Electric,” plus remixes of the song by Beats for Beginners and El Diablo’s Social Club:

||| Watch: Check out the video for “Too Many Miracles”: