David Gray - Dear Life - COMPACT DISCS [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 Incha starburst of songwritingInch... 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.

Davy Graham - Large As Life And Twice As Natural [COMPACT DISCS] date 11/03/2017

Vinyl LP pressing includes . Cameron Avery has arrived as a new breed of nocturnal crooner, a train-wreck romantic creating timeless, ambitious music for the modern age. Utilizing his soulful wit, shrewd arrangements, and a deep, husky baritone, Avery harnesses the dark power and humor of artists like Nick Cave, Scott Walker, and Tindersticks to expertly walk the fine line between vulnerable and venerable. Hailing from the late 2000's-era Perth, Australia, a healthy scene of hard-hitting garage rock bands, including a long stint as the drummer of Pond, Avery found his musical footing while playing with friends but sought the reward of his own outfit. Melancholic machismo is written into the very DNA of Ripe Dreams, Pipe Dreams. From the classical, finger-picked guitar on the opener InchA Time and PlaceInch and the orchestral vamping of InchDo You Know Me By Heart?Inch to the bombastic, self-assured swagger of InchDance with Me.Inch He takes an emotive page from the Leonard Cohen songbook-of-longing on InchBig Town GirlInch just as naturally as he thumbs an aggressive note of Bad Seed strut and Cramps rut on InchWatch Me Take It Away.Inch And by the time he purrs that earnest refrain of InchBaby, it's youInch on the album's closer InchC'est Toi,Inch Avery has surely mastered that drunken tightrope dance.