Jason Gray Releases Land of the Living

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Nov. 17, 2023 - PRLog -- Critically acclaimed singer/songwriter Jason Gray releases his full-length album, Land of the Living, today (Nov. 17) at digital and streaming outlets globally via https://fanlink.to/landoftheliving. On the new album, this beloved Centricity Music (https://centricitymusic.com/) recording artist is less of a host and more of a participant in the stories he's telling. Rather than leading listeners on a journey revolving around a central theme like he did with 2020's Order Disorder Reorder (https://jasongray.lnk.to/odrWE), this album serves up a batch of pop-friendly, radio-ready contenders primed for conversation.

"Concept albums tend to ask something of the listener," Gray says in regard to Land of the Living's predecessor. "This record is a little bit more, 'Thank you for your attention. That was the meat. Let's have a little dessert.'"

This cherry-on-top addition to his catalog is full of meaningful songs marked by Gray's remarkable ability to plumb the depths of the human experience — all within the confines of a three-minute pop song.

For each of the dozen tracks on Land of the Living, there's always one question Gray asks when he walks into a writing room: How do we tell the truth today? Yet, he proposes there's another question that's often a quicker route to the heart of the matter: What are we afraid to talk about today?

He discovered the answer to that question when he penned "Worth Staying For," arguably the most personal song of his entire career. Written with Andy Gullahorn, the autobiographical selection uncovers Gray's scars as he shares his core fear of abandonment, a wound inflicted in his childhood when his father left, and that was reopened years later during a painful divorce. "I was scared to release that one," he confesses, "because as a writer, you don't want to be the victim or the hero of your songs." Gray ultimately holds himself accountable as he traces the trauma from its point of entry to the ways "pain will be transmitted if it doesn't get transformed."

Lead single "Place For Me (https://fanlink.to/placeformeJG)," produced and engineered by GRAMMY Award-winning Jeff Sojka (Jeremy Camp, Crowder) and mixed by Sean Moffit (Chris Tomlin, NEEDTOBREATHE), was birthed out of Gray's own weighty baggage from the church, a place he's ultimately found to be a refuge for the sinner and saint alike.

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