| ABOUT
THE ALBUM Sell Sell Sell |
When it was originally released in 1995, Sell Sell Sell was
such a commercial failure that David Gray's record company decided
to drop him from its label. Its ironic title a sad joke on his
own inability to shift any records off the sheves. Later in
2000,due to the Welsh singer-songwriter's international breakthrough,
White Ladder (recorded in his own bedroom and independently
released), this transitional third album gets another airing.
New converts will have a hard time identifying the lovelorn
folk singer of White Ladder in the sleek surroundings here,
but Sell Sell Sell still offers detectable snatches of emerging
talent in the soft-spoken "Gutters Full of Rain,"
in the straight-laced rock of "Everytime."
The highlight of this album and undoubtedly one of his best
pieces of writing is the curiosly uplifting "Late
Night Radio," an upbeat track with brilliant images
and sounds..
The depth of despair is evident in stark lyrics such as in
Hold on to Nothing and What Am I doing
Wrong? as popularity continues to evade him. Little
did he know at the time thathis album turns out to be the night
before the dawn, or the dark night of the soul as he goes on
to follow this up by recording the hugely successful album White
Ladder .
White Ladder
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