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White Ladder

David Gray

1998
Group rating 2.33 Global rating 3.05
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This is yet another multi-million selling album from around the turn of the millennium that seems to have completely passed me by for some reason. It opens with an unusual combination of fairly upbeat dance adjacent electronica with a nasal sounding singer-songwriter (one review likened him to Bob Dylan!). It took me a while to twig that I’d heard him doing guest vocals on an Orbital album from a few years later. Mostly harmless.

It started OK with an electronica adjacent track. Well, it could have been better without the singer. And then it's generic boring pop music. I can't believe this made it to this list. THe guy is claiming that he paved the way for this kind of yawning music in the following years, which is another good reason to loathe this record.