David Gray (rock) - A Century Ends
Hardly anybody--with the notable exception of Irish songstress Mary Black, who subsequently turned out a rather splendid cover version of "Shine" some years later--bought A Century Ends, David Gray's debut album. Emerging in 1993, at a time when an uncharacteristically contented British public was bending its knees and twanging its braces along to the larksome antics of Britpop, there was little space on the living-room shelf for the torturous boudoir ponderings of a young-but-gnarly Dylan soundalike. There are pretty moments, but this is a record where angst and lust reign supreme--"Debauchery" is a salty tale of having it away on a rug with an alcoholically-lubricated lady ferry boat operative (sung in a voice pitched somewhere between the Waterboy's Mike Scott and celebrated naval fish-finger salesperson Captain Birdseye) while "Lead Me Upstairs" is a courtship tale which dispenses with first-date niceties. Britain later changed its mind about David Gray--after all, more people in the UK own his 1998 album White Ladder than own a ladder--but A Century Ends is a surprising rediscovery, a record begging further investigation for anybody whose idea of a good night in involves the solitary rolling of Rizlas along to Astral Weeks or Blood on the Tracks. --Kevin Maidment Binding Audio CD. Artist(s): David Gray. Publisher(s): EMI Music Canada. Label: EMI Music Canada. Format: Import.
| Fabricant: | EMI Music Canada |
| Numéro de la pièce: | 724381042120 |
| Prix le plus bas (CAD): | 1,94 $ |
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| Artist : | David Gray |
| Distributor : | EMI Music Canada |
| Format : | CD |
| Marque : | EMI |
| music_track : | It's All Over |
