Album Review: Dear Life by David Gray

The balladeer’s 13th album adds texture and alters the tempo a bit to produce both his poppiest and most successful work since White Ladder It’s been over 25 years since David Gray made his breakthrough album, White Ladder. It’s hard to describe exactly what an impact Gray’s fourth album made – but for a while in the late ’90s, it seemed like you couldn’t move without hearing This Year’s Love, Please Forgive Me and especially Babylon blasting out from a shop window or car stereo. Like many artists with an iconic album behind them, Gray’s never managed to ever recapture that record’s success.

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Acclaimed singer-songwriter David Gray is in an introspective mood, pondering life and all the complex matters that pertain to our existence. From the highs of love to the contemplation of mortality, his 13th studio album 'Dear Life' is a collection of 13 tracks that encompasses everything that has been in David's sphere for several years. Navigating between a myriad of emotional themes which includes pondering faith, science, acceptance, illusion and more, 'Dear Life' takes us on a journey and whilst some of the album is his most dense and intricate work to date, parts of it are pared back and beautiful, seemingly in contrast to some of the heavier subject material.

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