New Album By The Fray
Features Singles "You Found Me" and "Say When"
Recorded through the first half of 2008, The Fray’s self-titled second album hits stores on 3 February 2009. The album features the same lyric-minded, keyboard-laden sound as How To Save a Life.
The first single, “You Found Me,” was released in November through an ABC spotlight commercial during the television hit Grey’s Anatomy. Followed by album tracks “Say When” and “Syndicate,” fans can expect the same formula that made “How to Save a Life” and “Cable Car” international hits.
“You Found Me”
The first single from the new album by The Fray recalls many of the themes of the opener from their debut album, “How to Save a Life.” The song is a soul-searching track of personal connection and saving. Isaac Slade’s emotional lyric and vocal has the protagonist “lost and insecure” and “on the corner of 1st and Amistad.” Until found, "lying on the floor,” and saved.
“You Found Me” features a keyboard-heavy opening, a melodic hook, and the searing vocals that have made Isaac Slade a fan favorite. Featuring the lyrical gem expected of a new album by The Fray: “In the end, everyone ends up alone / Losing her, the only one who’s ever known / Who I am, who I’m not / and who I wanna be.”
“Say When”
Switching the keyboard intro for a guitar, “Say When” features an empowered Isaac Slade doing the saving and finding this time. With five long verses, “Say When” has Slade and The Fray at their instrumental best. The guitar opening is followed by tone setting drums and a break featuring Slade’s recognizable keyboard riffs.
Perhaps the most powerful lyrical performance on the new album by The Fray, “Say When” features the lyric: “Come close, and then even closer / We bring it in but we go no further / We’re separate, two ghosts in one mirror, no mearer.”
“Syndicate”
A departure for The Fray from “How to Save a Life” or “You Found Me,” Isaac Slade offers “Syndicate.” The opening song on the new album by The Fray, “Syndicate” features an uncharacteristically upbeat piano. It is a hopeful song featuring the lyrics: “And all we know for sure / Is all that we are fighting for / Baby don’t forget / We haven’t lost it all yet.”
In the making for over two years, a new album by The Fray was sure to arouse hype. The performances put together by Isaac Slade have had fans anticipating the follow-up to How to Save a Life since 2006. With “You Found Me,” “Say When,” and “Syndicate,” The Fray have attempted to recapture the magic.
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