NEW ALBUM: DAVID GRAY ~ Dear Life

[Ruby]

DAVID GRAY ~ Dear Life



Somehow I just can’t seem to find the thread of this album, and stay with it. David Gray is an excellent lyricist and a clever man but to be brutal, Dear Life is a far remove from White Ladder and that's kinda that, really. I kept losing focus and then wondering what I’d listened to. This has happened repeatedly because I’ve tried several times to at least pay the album and the artist the respect of listening properly all the way through. Maybe it’s me – not impossible! I think I would rather reacquaint myself with 2014’s Mutineers which is the last album of his that I can honestly say I enjoyed in sufficient measure to remember.

And now in a seemingly contradictory statement, I will say that there’s nothing awful or even bad on this release – it’s just sideways from the David Gray I personally prefer to listen to - with a couple of exceptions. Chances are high that it is I who am not open to the newer sounds included here although I will say that he seems to be in fine voice. And he's a poet, y'know - at heart, so there were a couple of tracks (of the many) that managed to stick their heads up above the parapet, for me – in addition to the 'singles' I think I’ve already posted somewhere here, so I will link to those …

"Eyes Made Rain" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EKaUf7-GSk

"That Day Must Surely Come" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EBE3_MaYJE

"Sunlight On Water"

[CRAZY-HORSE]

^^
i managed to listen to the album.
like you said Ruby, there was nothing bad on it.
i felt it did not flow evenly like earlier albums and there was something missing but i could not put my finger on what it was.
i guess i will revisit the album later in the week to give it another chance to impress but only because i love his first two albums so much and i feel i owe that to his music.

[Ruby]

^Interesting - yes - a bit one dimensional, or something like that. Difficult to say!