Album Reviews

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David Gray: Gold in a Brass Age (IHT/AWAL)

David Gray has always been a restless soul. The angry young man of his first three albums morphed into the plaintive hearts-and-beats balladeer of his breakthrough, White Ladder, an album he could have reproduced every two years had he wanted to simply massage his ego. Gray, however, has constantly pushed the experimental boat out in the studio, refusing to resurrect past glories.

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