Life in Slow Motion by David Gray

Life in Slow Motion, David Gray's seventh studio album, came out on 12 September 2005 in Europe and a day later in America, and plenty of listeners heard it as the English songwriter getting back to the form of White Ladder after the muted reception for A New Day at Midnight. He wanted Daniel Lanois behind the desk, but Lanois was booked, so Marius de Vries, who had produced Gray's hit "Sail Away", took the job and gave the songs a wider, more cinematic frame. Gray named Sigur Rós, Sparklehorse, Lucinda Williams, Björk and Mercury Rev as touchstones, and for the first time on one of his records there's a cellist in the room.

"The One I Love", "Hospital Food" and "Alibi" were the singles. It was also his last album with longtime collaborator Craig McClune, and the standard CD shipped with the notorious MediaMax copy-protection software.

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