The album included his best-known songs: ' This Year's Love', ' Babylon', ' Please Forgive Me' and ' Sail Away'. While his first three albums featured acoustic folk songs and guitar-based alternative rock, White Ladder introduced his now-trademark folktronic sound. The re-release brought him commercial success and critical attention. Originally released on Gray's own label IHT Records in November 1998, White Ladder was re-released in 2000 on ATO Records. 1998–2002: White Ladder and rise to fame On the 1997 Mary Black album Shine, Gray contributed five songs. Despite critical acclaim, the album did not chart, but the song ' Late Night Radio' received some airplay on alternative UK radio stations. Despite his dislike of the album, Gray continued to maintain residence in Ithaca, NY on and off over the years. The album was recorded at Pyramid Sound Studios in Ithaca, NY. In 1996 Gray released his third album, Sell, Sell, Sell. Gray's first two albums, A Century Ends and Flesh, were issued in 19 respectively and led to Gray becoming popular in folk-rock circles, but both failed in terms of commercial sales. It was that which gave me the kind of insane self-belief I have, and had even then, that I could do something as unlikely as play music for a living.' He went to Ysgol Dewi Sant high school in nearby St Davids and then on to Carmarthenshire College of Art and finally Liverpool School of Art.

Gray was born in 1968 in Sale, Cheshire, England, and lived in Altrincham near Manchester before moving with his family at the age of nine to Solva, Pembrokeshire, Wales, where his parents took over a gift shop and started a clothing business. 1.2 1998–2002: White Ladder and rise to fameĬareer Early life and career.

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