David Gray: Mutineers – review
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“By a long, immense and reasoned derangement of all the senses the poet makes himself a seer,” the French poet Arthur Rimbaud reckoned.
With his 10th album trailed by talk of “creative transformation” and going “off the map”, David Gray sounds like he’s aiming for a similar epiphany.
“The incredible is approaching from over there/It won’t leap past us this time,” he sings gruffly at one point, his voice halfway between a bark and a plea.
But Mutineers doesn’t allow itself to get too deranged: Gray, best known for his 1998 hit White Ladder, is too well-mannered for that. Instead he hammers away in search of illumination while music swells and ebbs around him, soulful acoustic rock given a handsome extra depth by Lamb’s Andy Barlow.
David Gray
Mutineers
(IHT Records)
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