David_Gray-Draw_The_Line-(Deluxe_Edition)-2CD-2009-SiRE

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SiRE

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119,95 MB

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19

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2009-09-28

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Artist:   David Gray
Title:    Draw The Line
Label:    Polydor
Genre:    Rock
Bitrate:  177kbit av.
Time:     01:32:56
Size:     125.77 mb
Rip Date: 2009-09-27
Str Date: 2009-09-14


DISC 1:

01. Fugitive                                                      3:43
02. Draw The Line                                                 4:23
03. Nemesis                                                       5:26
04. Jackdaw                                                       3:55
05. Kathleen                                                      3:49
06. First Chance                                                  5:59
07. Harder                                                        3:51
08. Transformation                                                3:23
09. Stella The Artist                                             3:37
10. Breathe                                                       4:38
11. Full Steam                                                    4:12

DISC 2:

01. World To Me                                                   3:45
02. Sail Away                                                     5:27
03. Ain't No Love                                                 3:20
04. Babylon                                                       6:32
05. Slow Motion                                                   4:42
06. The One I Love                                                4:14
07. Other Side                                                    6:51
08. Nightblindness                                               11:09

Release Notes:

It's taken David Gray four years to follow up Life in Slow Motion, and
frankly, you have to wonder what's been holding him up, as these 11
pleasant, predictable songs represent no great development or deviation
from the course of his previous work.

The single "Fugitive" û so obviously this album's "Babylon" that it
could be from the same mould û opens proceedings in anthemic manner,
its descending piano figure stalking along as Gray advises someone
(himself?) to "get that twinkling in your eye". From there it's
business as usual, with twinkling beds of arpeggiated guitar and
rolling rhythms carrying Gray's world-weary, Woodbine drawl as he
ponders his situation. In the ebullient "Stella the Artist", he's
"gibbering like a lunatic" with love; in "Nemesis", he's "the memory
you can't get out of your head"; but it's hard to see why anyone else
should be that interested in these songs, save for the occasional
intriguing image, such as "there are carnivals of silverfish waiting to
dance upon our bones". Likewise, musically it's steadfastly stuck in
the middle of the road, except for what sounds like the weird, sharp
whine of cello pulled like a strand through "First Chance". Annie
Lennox pops up to duet on "Full Steam Ahead", as does Jolie Holland on
"Kathleen", neither shifting the results into a much more interesting
position.

Deluxe edition containing a bonus CD Live At The London Roundhouse

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