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David Gray Finds 'New Day'
11/06/2002 12:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Mark Armstrong
(11/6/02, 12 p.m. ET) -- David Gray returned Tuesday (November 5) with his sixth album to date, A New Day At Midnight, featuring the single "The Other Side." The release is the anticipated follow-up to the London singer-songwriter's 1999 breakthrough effort, White Ladder, of which more than 2 million copies were sold in the United States alone thanks in great part to its hit single, "Babylon."
Gray admits to a "certain amount of psychology involved" in the making of A New Day..., which was the first album he's made in his career following a hit record. But, he says, "It's generally unhealthy to be concerning yourself too much with what other people might think. The task I faced was to get past all that, and get on with the job of writing and recording some music that articulated how I was thinking and feeling in the here and now."
Many of the songs on A New Day At Midnight came to Gray in ways nearly indescribable. He tells LAUNCH that it's long been a process that mystifies him. "This world of songwriting is weird. Like anything--poetry--how do you claim authorship for these things that just almost happen by magic? And you must strive and strive, and bang and bang on the door, and sometimes it creaks open and you rush and you're given one of these gifts. But that's what you work for. But when it arrives it's not like, 'Oh clever me.' I think you work hard in order to receive these things. I don't quite know how it all fits together."
Gray kicks off a North American tour in support of A New Day At Midnight in Detroit on January 26.
-- Neal Weiss, Los Angeles
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