Electric light

"... an artist whose mere name could prompt the curl of a music critic's lip, for coming back with his second album Electric Light clearly determined to reinvent himself from a Brits troubadour darling - also nominated for three Grammys - to something a little more credible .. But the singer-songwriter still sounds more John Mayer than Frank Ocean on his second record".

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"The Hitchin singer-songwriter knocks his old persona into a cocked hat on this wildly diverse second album ... there's something for everyone here. Not into Bleachers, The Stokes, Springsteen or Bon Iver? Wrap your ears around The War On Drugs-lite `Wanderlust', or `I Found You', which sounds like D'Angelo's 'Untitled' minus the sex ... 'Electric Light' is all over the place ... Bay is to be commended for taking the path of most resistance, and for wowing us with something unexpected, but it's often hard to shake the feeling that he's simply sanitised the sound of various more interesting artists".

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