A couple of years back, i bought David Gray's 'White Ladder', despite a couple of disappointing tracks, i then bought 'A new day at midnight' upon its release.
On the whole, its is a good album, not exceptional, but good and a wlecome change from all the pop, r 'n' b and rap. Gray has a silky smooth voice, and is backed by some excellent musical structure.
However, in all honesty, i was slightly disappointed with this album. There are a couple of outstanding songs on it, but the rest of the tracks are mediocre.
The album both opens and ends with beatifully structured songs, 'Dead in the water' and 'The other side'. The other tracks that impressed me were 'Caroline', 'Kangaroo' and 'Be Mine'. The writing is original and sung beatifully, but some tracks lack invention, and are too similar to previous songs by Gray.
Definitely one for Gray fans. I would certain recommend it, especially if you are into the easy listening style of music.
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David Gray'sA New Day at Midnightis darker than its mega-hit predecessor, and deeper, and ... more
all the better for that. Emotionally fuelled by the death of Gray's father and the birth of his son, it possesses much the same tone asWhite Ladder, being simulta...
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David Gray's A New Day at Midnight is darker than its mega-hit predecessor, and deeper, ... more
and all the better for that. Emotionally fuelled by the death of Gray's father and the birth of his son, it possesses much the same tone as White Ladder, being simu...
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Advantages: Melancholy,thought provoking lyrics,beautiful emotionally loaded vocals-just lovely. Disadvantages: Bit mellow and sometimes the songs blend in to each other a bit.
Advantages: Wide range of music; some truly great tracks; consistently high quality Disadvantages: Very few, perhaps only that it is very slighty shorter than previous albums
Aug 15th, 2004
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