The Fray may just be the most faceless band ever to sell 3 million records, and therein lies their brilliance. The Denver foursome is spectacularly anonymous: poignant enough to bring out the waterworks, but generic enough not to get in the way of someone else’s story—making them the perfect soundtrack for prime-time melodrama. Frontman Isaac Slade’s pleasantly raspy croon and teardrops-on-my-piano wistfulness helped land 2005’s “How to Save a Life” everywhere, from Grey’s Anatomy to One Tree Hill, but without the help of a plot line or scrubs-clad eye candy, these songs tend to wash together into one fierce tidal wave of meh. Their first hit single, “Over My Head (Cable Car),” was the catchiest song about public transportation since Sheena Easton’s “Morning Train (Nine to Five).” Here, only “You Found Me,” an aching ballad about being forsaken by God, stands out. It sounded even better on the commercial for Lost.

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