David Gray: Foundling | CD review

(Polydor)"It's the record I've been wanting to make for a long time," says David Gray of his ninth album, which arrives less than a year after number eight. Funny, because it's not so very different from the records he's been making all along. The customary bleak introspection ("Take me down, take me down," he sighs, preparing for the worst, on Davey Jones' Locker) is there, as is the neediness in his jagged voice, especially on the bloodily raw When I Was in Your Heart. The dabs of pedal ste...

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