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David Gray
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British singer/songwriter David Gray had already built a respectable, if commercially overlooked career as a folk-rock artist in the mid-'90s before his innovative fourth album, White Ladder, brought his mix of acoustic instruments and electronic samples into the mainstream. Self-released in 1998, it was picked up by ATO in 2000 and eventually made its way to number one in the U.K. over a year later, by which time Gray's raspy, soaring vocals and introspective folktronica had become internationally ubiquitous thanks to singles like "Babylon" and "Please Forgive Me." Gray's popularity remained strong throughout the middle part of the decade thanks to releases like 2005's Life in Slow Motion and a pair of Greatest Hits anthologies focused on different periods of his career, both of which appeared in 2007. A prolific run of back-to-back albums (2009's Back in Line and 2010's Foundling) carried him into the next decade, though it would be another four years before he produced another album. Resurrecting his own IHT record label, the one he'd initially used to release the home-recorded White Ladder 16 years prior, Gray issued 2014's Mutineers, followed by 2019's Gold in a Brass Age and 2021's Skellig, three quality independent releases which, in a sense, saw him come full-circle with his D.I.Y. approach.