Foundling
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Foundling
Foundling is the stunning new effort by internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter<br>David Gray. Foundling (defi ned as an infant found after its unknown parents have<br>abandoned it) is an extraordinary song cycle of rare and timeless power. As Gray<br>puts it with a warm laugh, Foundling sort of arrived at my door without my asking<br>it to, so it felt very appropriate for this album. <br>In a sense, Foundling also marks another notable arrival -- the second coming of<br>David Gray s own second coming. By 2005, Gray had already enjoyed what has<br>been a rather distinguished career as a singer-songwriter and recording artist,<br>having sold more than 12 million albums, including his global left-fi eld smash,<br>1998 s White Ladder, which remains the single best selling album in Irish history.<br>Gray had by this point already won two Ivor Novello Awards, a Q award, two Brit<br>nominations and a GRAMMY nomination. But not a man or artist content to ever<br>rest on his laurels, Gray decided that the time had come to shake things up in a<br>signifi cant way. So in 2006, David Gray decided to disband his longtime backing<br>group, and to attempt to reconnect with his music before recording his excellent<br>2009 album Draw The Line with a new group of players, an album which has gone<br>on to sell over 143,000 units to date.<br>Recorded at the same time as Draw The Line, Foundling looks like the most<br>gorgeous and minimalist musical tapestry that David Gray has ever created. Like<br>the recent productions of T-Bone Burnett, this is music that seems to exist almost<br>outside of time, yet feels fantastically modern and stripped of all unnecessary<br>varnish. Because I ve done so much recording lately, I think you eventually get<br>braver, says Gray. You think `I can go even further with this I can do even less. <br>So there s defi nitely a sense here of reducing the songs to their absolute bare<br>minimum. It s basically the record I ve been wanting to make for a long time and it s<br>as strong a statement as White Ladder in its own way. The album is like a stepping<br>off point for what might happen next. It s like I m really putting my money where<br>my mouth is with this one.
