David Gray - This Year's Love, Pt. 1 Audio CD
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Band: David Gray
Title: This Year's Love, Pt. 1
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Release Date: 2001-05-08
Media: Audio CD
Tracks: 1: This Year's Love [strings remix] 2: Flame Turns Blue 3: Lights of London
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This Is Not A Love Song It's not the most obvious single choice, that would be "Babylon", which makes it all the more welcome. The Sinatra piano ballad from "White Ladder" finally gets released as a single. Too often, artists design songs specifically as singles. It's a heartfelt meditation on being in love and the underlying fear of losing that love.
Gray's opus is beautifully put together, the piano line perfectly underscoring his slow, world-weary voice. Why didn't he give it more of a chance and release it when the film it was written for appeared? It would have fitted easily on to Faithless's recent "All Back To Mine" compilation, a perfect 2 in the morning chill-out track, for when you're ruminating on what should have happened in your life.
And the hopes and fears of tomorrow are poured in as well. To hold a lighter aloft when this song is played live would be to do it a gross sentimental injustice. Just think about it instead.
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