HOW TO SAVE A LIFE - THE FRAY
The Fray’s top five breakthrough “Over My Head (Cable Car)” seems like coasting compared with the 100 mph momentum of follow-up “How to Save a Life,” the title track from th e Denver quartet’s debut disc. Featured in HBO imaging and “Grey’s Anatomy” (a record label’s best friend of late), the song is booming with superlatives: No. 1 track on iTunes; top 10 VH1; concurrent top 10 at adult top 40, with “Life”; and more critical buzz than a swarm of bees. It’s all about the music here, thanks to singer/pianist Isaac Slade’s and guitarist/singer Joe King’s appreciably sensitive, pathos-oozing, piano-driven modus operandi. Billboard
