The Fray's new single "You Found Me" has done respectably on the charts (#28 on Billboard's US Hot 100). The Fray is a talented piano-driven rock band out of Denver whose biggest hits were "How to Save a Life" and "Over My Head (Cable Car)".
"You Found Me" is not their greatest song and it treads some familiar territory from their first studio album How to Save a Life. It begins gradually with a short piano riff and a sonically pleasant, but unspectacular verse and then predictably adds guitar and drums about half a minute in. It picks up around 1:30 when the drum beat changes and then slows down again during the bridge. It's not a bad song (and everyone knows singles are generally not the best songs from an album), but if it sounds too much like their first album, I fear it'll be easily forgotten (and won't move the band forward, which would be a shame because they're a great band with mass appeal and fun to watch live). My hope is that the rest of the album will take a few more risks and they'll play with their song progression a bit more. Their new album, self-titled The Fray is scheduled to release February 3rd, 2009.
Listen to the single "You Found Me" for yourself and let me know what you think.
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Hahah...I was just logging on to post about The Fray myself! You can download the video of "You Found Me" for free on iTunes right now. The only hitch is that the music video is also a promo for the new season of Lost, so you have to put up with a few sound bites from the show here and there. Though I agree with your comments that the new single isn't particularly stunning, I'm so elated that The Fray is finally releasing a new CD (I was convinced they had dropped off the face of the planet), that I remain hopeful that the rest of the album will be great.
what a coincidence! The Fray is fantastic and they're long overdue for a sophmore album (it'll be almost four years, right?)... February can't come soon enough.
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