Life in Slow Motion

• Artist : David Gray
• Binding : Audio CD
• EAN : 0828767106823
• Format : Content/Copy-Protected CD
• Label : Ato Records
• Manufacturer : Ato Records
• MPN : 828767106823
• Number Of Discs : 1
• Package Dimensions : 0.40 inches (Height) x 5.60 inches (Length) x 0.20 pounds (Weight) x 4.70 inches (Width)
• Package Quantity : 1
• Part Number : 828767106823
• Product Group : Music
• Publisher : Ato Records
• Release Date : 2005-09-13
• SKU : A2SC_B000AA305M
• Studio : Ato Records
• UPC : 828767106823

While it's truistic to state that success breeds success, for his seventh album, Life In Slow Motion, David Gray appears creditably disinclined to exploit the mainstream global success of White Ladder by languidly adhering to any prescripted expectations. Evidently not one for squatting on his laurels--years of pre-fame self-sufficiency has seen to that--Gray has toiled towards new horizons, drafting in an external producer for the first time. <img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/02/uk-music/images/dgray.jpg" width="185" height="150" align="left"> Marius De Vries, whose duties grace the more recent works of Bjork, Madonna and Rufus Wainwright, adds a more poetic dimension to such Thomas Hardy-esque musical landscapes as "Now And Always" and "Nos Da Cariad", where the negligibility of human emotion is contrasted with the raw omnipotence of the environment and the succinct brutality of existence. Not that Gray is a total mope; "The One I Love"--a paean to life expressed through the lips of a dying battlefield casualty--is a fine, if anomalistic, pop song in the Springsteen tradition and the cinematic sweetness of "Alibi" disguises its hair-tearing, long-distance estrangement in one of Gray's more superlative radio friendly tunes. Life In Slow Motion might well be David Gray's darkest hour yet but for homogeneity, ambition and self-expression it's also his most realised record by some distance. --Kevin Maidment <table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="1"> <tr align="center" valign="top"> <td colspan="4"><div align="left">More to Explore <tr align="center" valign="bottom"> <img src="http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00006LVFM.02.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" width="110" height="110" border="0"> <img src="http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00004TFMN.02.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" width="110" height="110" border="0"> <img src="http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000053U0D.02.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" width="78" height="110" border="0"> <img src="http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0007L6SDU.02.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" width="78" height="110" border="0"> <tr align="center" valign="top"> <td width="25%"><p align="center"> A New Day at Midnight (CD) <td width="25%"> <p align="center"> White Ladder (CD) <td width="25%"><div align="center"> <p align="center"> David Gray - Live (DVD) <td width="25%"> <div align="center"> A Way of Life (DVD) <tr align="center" valign="top"> <td colspan="4"> <div align="center"> <p align="left"> <img src="http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/orange-arrow.gif" width="10" height="9"> Find more from David Gray

- Amazon.co.uk Review

Tracks:

• Disc 1

  • 1: Alibi
  • 2: The One I Love
  • 3: Lately
  • 4: Nos Da Cariad
  • 5: Slow Motion
  • 6: From Here You Can Almost See The Sea
  • 7: Ain't No Love
  • 8: Hospital Food
  • 9: Now And Always
  • 10: Disappearing World

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