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| 1. Please Forgive Me |
| 2. Babylon |
| 3. My Oh My |
| 4. We're Not Right |
| 5. Nightblindness |
| 6. Silver Lining |
| 7. White Ladder |
| 8. This Years Love |
| 9. Sail Away |
| 10. Say Hello Wave Goodbye |
| 11. Babylon II |
I won't pretend that I've been a huge David Gray supporter since he was playing the street corners of little towns in Wales. To be honest, prior to David Gray, my knowledge of Wales "exports" was limited to Dylan Thomas, The Manic Street Preachers, and Stereophonics. So, truth be told, I'm a recent follower. But, I am now devout.
This cd is amazing. A word of caution: it will inspire you to go out and purchase as much as you can of Gray's work. I have thus far gone out and purchased the "Lost Songs" cd, the "Flesh" cd, and the "Century Ends" cd. Each is utterly amazing.
Full of beauty, melancholy, sadness, hope, and happiness, this cd is perfect for almost every setting. Be it relaxing in the evening, your house lit by nothing but candles, driving down the highway, top down on a gorgeous sunny day, or curled up by the window watching rain fall.
This cd has a more electronic-based/backed type sound as you can hear from the singles of "Babylon" and "Please Forgive Me." But, it is a very delicate sound that stays in the background and adds to the songs an amazing texture. It never oppresses the songs, and never becomes over-bearing in, say, the Paul Oakenfold techno sense. I mention this only because his other cd's, for example the ones listed above, are much more stripped down and acoustic. But, don't think for a moment that this is a bad thing. It is very, very wonderful.
I'd also like to give David Gray TREMENDOUS kudos for his beautiful cover of Soft Cell's "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye.
... Read more ›It takes about 3 or 4 listens to really get into this album but once you listen to it about 10 times you start thinking about this album ever time your hear MTV type rubbish, and start to long for a quite room and CD player.
After about 30 listens your attention starts to focus on the truly great tracks that begin and end this album as the middle tracks start to get skipped. Please Forgive Me gets better with ever listen with the end of the song driven on pure emotion, Babylon has the sing along chorus of the year, get your tissues out for This Years Love, Sail Away is a perfect mix of this aforementioned songs, and Say Hello Wave Goodbye drifts on for ages into the reflected silence that overcomes you when the album ends.
Some people get sick of this album after a while but never regret buying it; this sickness is usually induced by the endless listening you devote to this album when you first get you hands on.
If you like the passion of David Gray's voice get his other three albums especially his debut A Century Ends, as his previous efforts are more vocally based than White Ladder. This album just shows one side of David Gray, enjoying discovering his other qualities and go to see him Live for the ultimate Gray experience.