After eight years of touring and recording his three previous albums, 1998s White Ladder (6 million worldwide sales) established David Gray as one of the UK’s leading artists both at home and overseas. In Ireland, White Ladder remains the best selling album of all time. His commercial success is backed up by a critical consensus that has seen him win two Ivor Novello awards for song writing, a Q award for best single, a GQ award for Best Solo Artist, two Brit nominations for Best Male, a Grammy Nomination for Best New Artist and been championed by The Sun newspaper as the “country’s real pop star.‘Life in Slow Motion’, the new album, is described by David as ‘the tip of an iceberg’ of new material generated along the way.