David Gray - Dear Life (CD)

David Gray is back doing what he does better than almost anyone, and fans of complex, serious, lyrical songcraft should rejoice. Dear Life may be the deepest, strangest, loveliest album this pioneering British singer-songwriter has ever delivered. Years in the making, it is an album of emotional crisis and resolution, mortality and faith, reality and illusion, love and heartbreak, magic, science, loss and acceptance. Dear Life is David Gray's 13th album. It's the result of "a starburst of songwriting"... it just seemed like the gods of songwriting were being kind. An album of emotional crisis and resolution, mortality and faith, reality and illusion, love and heartbreak, magic, science, loss and acceptance. While it is full of yearning and hope, there is an undercurrent of darkness, a tension between competing forces of hope and despair: a cavalcade of emotions in what is his most lyrically-focused collection to-date.

1 After the Harvest
2 Plus & Minus
3 Eyes Made Rain
4 Leave Taking
5 I Saw Love
6 Fighting Talk
7 Sunlight on Water
8 That Day Must Surely Come
9 Singing for the Pharaoh
10 The Messenger
11 Acceptance (It's Alright)
12 Future Bride
13 The Only Ones
14 The First Stone
15 More Than Anything