By the way he's been talking you half expect him to have pulled a complete 180 on his latest album, suddenly sounding like Slayer.   Full text...

Without question, this is a classic album.   Full text...

This time around the drum machine has been replaced with spacious soundscapes of glacial instrumentation, string sections, brass and harmonicas.  Full text...

"Slow Motion" takes a while to build, but once there, the chorus is a thing of beauty- an ultra-dramatic crescendo of strings and horns, with a sparse slide guitar and Gray's blistering high-end above it all.  Full text...

No, this album will not grab you by the balls, shake you violently and demand you listen, it gently nudges you awake on a Sunday morning and provides you with a soundtrack for your day; a backbeat of pure joy and expression.  Full text...

As for the rest, it's mostly background music, but it's heartfelt background music, and the warmth makes all the difference.   Full text...

Life In Slow Motion doesn't have much in that instant anthem vein, but at least merits repeat hearings and works better as a whole album rather than a collection of singles.  Full text...

But on his most affecting cuts, such as the lilting, elegiac title track, Gray works up the kind of gentle melancholia that goes down smooth, but reappears later, in your head.   Full text...

This summer of crooners reaches its climax (which is probably too vivid a word) with the release of David Gray's seventh album.  Full text...

There was a time when I thought David Gray's music was insufferably boring.  Full text...

But that doesn't mask the fact Life in Slow Motion is easily Gray's most artistically fulfilling album, and one that proves that there is a place for more experimentalism in the mainstream.   Full text...