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2021
David Gray is the last of the true believers on a balm of a new album that finds a secret place between tranquility and tumult
Just in time for a sea shanty fad surely brought on by lockdown cabin fever, David Gray s 12th studio album has a distinctly restless and yearning quality, a seafaring tale of lives cast about on the tides and swells of hope and despair.
Of course, you could say that all of David Gray’s albums have a distinctly restless and yearning quality but rarely has the man who sold 34 million copies (subs - please check) in Ireland of his
05 February 2021
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David Gray will release his twelfth studio album, Skellig, via Laugh a Minute Records / AWAL Recordings on February 19, 2021 on digital formats, with CD & vinyl to follow in May.
The second LP to be produced by Ben de Vries, the thirteen-track album departs from the shimmering electronics of 2019’s Gold In A Brass Age and embarks on a sparser, communal soundscape with the atmospheric songs centring themselves around six-part vocals with Gray trading his signature gravel for a softer tone.
The news is accompanied by new single ‘Heart & Soul’, the second track to be lifted from the album following title, opening track and gateway song to the album’s theme, ‘Skellig’. Recorded prior to the pandemic, the album sessions took place at Edwyn Collins’ Helmsdale studio on the Sutherland coast, with De Vries and Gray finessing the mix throughout lockdown. The album’s artwork is created by former art school graduate Gray himself.
Cover Crops, Sensors, and Food Security
Forward-Thinking Ideas for the USDA’s Agriculture Innovation Agenda
Research ecologist Steven Mirsky evaluates a cereal rye cover crop. Credit: Matthew Ryan (USDA-ARS)
By DJ McCauley
“Oh well, guess we’ll have to wait a year until it’s finished,” Marty says.
“Marty, you’re just not thinking fourth dimensionally!” Doc Brown says.
“Right, right, I have a real problem with that,” Marty replies.
Of course, in the future, the DeLorean
won’t jet off the end of the bridge the bridge will be finished!
It was “fourth-dimensional” ideas that Elizabeth Stulberg sought when leading a task force of 12 agricultural stakeholders to think about the biggest problems confronting farmers in the United States.