Mutineers (album)

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Mutineers
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Studio album by
David Gray
Released17 June 2014
RecordedNovember 2013–March 2014
StudioThe Church Studios
Genre Folk rock
Length48:22
Label Good Soldier Songs
Producer Andy Barlow
David Gray chronology
Foundling
(2010)		Mutineers
(2014)		 Gold in a Brass Age
(2019)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 72/100 [1]
Review scores
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Mutineers is the tenth studio album by English singer-songwriter David Gray, released on 17 June 2014 on IHT Records, with "Back in the World" as its first single. It was Gray's fifth consecutive US Top 20 album. [2] A decade after its release, Gray said that he is "super proud" of what was "a purposeful first step into the current creative zone, both sonically and thematically". [3]

Contents

Background

In the years leading up to the recording of the album, Gray had become exhausted and disillusioned. "Coming out of the noughties, I just felt beat up, physically and mentally", he told critic Tony Clayton-Lea. "And bored". [4] Gray recounted that he "needed someone else in the studio to help me find the keys to the city; someone who would take me to a place that I hadn't heard before. And that person was Andy Barlow", a producer and musician. He described the collaboration as "a beautiful agony". The pair established a "stringent recording schedule", which unlocked a "creative spontaneity" that Gray found "priceless", and which ultimately "rehumanised" him. [4]

Release

On 1 April 2014, the video for "Gulls" premiered on both the Myles O'Reilly website and Gray's official YouTube channel, with O'Reilly being the director. [5] [6] On 10 April, "Back in the World" was uploaded onto Gray's official YouTube channel. [7] A day later, the song was played by radio presenter Chris Evans on BBC Radio 2 for The Chris Evans Breakfast Show . [8]

Critical reception

Tony Clayton-Lea found that the album saw Gray "reconnect with a fervour" that had been absent since the artist had found massive commercial success with White Ladder . [4] Writing in The Irish Times , the critic said that it was "yet another departure point" for the artist. The Guardian noted "a timeworn quality that's charismatic", in an album where "[optimism] is the overriding theme". [9] It was "the sound of a man gently recuperating from a decade of being defined by his multimillion-selling 1998 album, White Ladder". PopMatters saw it as an overdue sequel, "the kind of follow-up to 1998's smash White Ladder for which longtime fans have been waiting some 16 years", and "the most comfortable Gray has sounded in years". [10]

Track listing

All tracks are written by David Gray except where noted

Mutineers track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Back in the World"Gray, Andy Barlow3:57
2."As the Crow Flies"Gray, Barlow4:13
3."Mutineers" 5:01
4."Beautiful Agony"Gray, Barlow4:04
5."Last Summer" 4:13
6."Snow in Vegas" 4:21
7."Cake and Eat It" 2:33
8."Birds of the High Arctic"Gray, Barlow6:24
9."The Incredible"Gray, Robbie Malone3:23
10."Girl Like You" 5:18
11."Gulls" 4:55
Total length:48:22
Bonus track version
No.TitleLength
12."Nearly Midnight"3:51
Total length:52:13

Personnel

Charts

Chart performance for Mutineers
Chart (2014)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [11] 22
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [12] 67
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [13] 57
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [14] 31
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [15] 53
Irish Albums (IRMA) [16] 7
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [17] 36
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [18] 27
UK Albums (OCC) [19] 10
US Billboard 200 [20] 15

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