David Gray

Gray's 2002 album is another offering of super-melodic songs designed to make you cry, or think anyway, with synthesizers providing background color and electro-beats keeping the kids interested. Gray's unshakeable and distinctive songwriting talents are as strong as ever, it's just too bad everything has to sound like Coldplay all the time.

Back before White Ladder established him as a darling of the Chardonnay-and-chinos set,
David Gray made bitter little bleary-eyed soul records that described emotional despair in
tones anyone who ever loved Van Morrison could appreciate. The singer-songwriter
returns to that approach with the slow, stately elegies of A New Day at Midnight. The
haunting drone "Dead in the Water," the caustic "Be Mine" and a mystical poem in... More >