Name: Electric Light
Brand: Republic
SKU: 175756580
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Electric Light

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Album: Electric Light
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Intro	More Info...	0:01
2)	Wasted On Each Other	More Info...	0:04
3)	Pink Lemonade	More Info...	0:04
4)	Wild Love	More Info...	0:03
5)	Us	More Info...	0:03
6)	In My Head	More Info...	0:03
7)	Interlude	More Info...	0:01
8)	Just for Tonight	More Info...	0:03
9)	Wanderlust	More Info...	0:04
10)	I Found You	More Info...	0:05
11)	Sugar Drunk High	More Info...	0:03
12)	Stand Up	More Info...	0:05
13)	Fade Out	More Info...	0:04
14)	Slide	More Info...	0:03

Album: Electric Light
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Intro	More Info...	0:01
2)	Wasted On Each Other	More Info...	0:04
3)	Pink Lemonade	More Info...	0:04
4)	Wild Love	More Info...	0:03
5)	Us	More Info...	0:03
6)	In My Head	More Info...	0:03
7)	Interlude	More Info...	0:01
8)	Just for Tonight	More Info...	0:03
9)	Wanderlust	More Info...	0:04
10)	I Found You	More Info...	0:05
11)	Sugar Drunk High	More Info...	0:03
12)	Stand Up	More Info...	0:05
13)	Fade Out	More Info...	0:04
14)	Slide	More Info...	0:03

Performer Notes

Personnel: James Bay (vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, baritone guitar, piano, drums, hand claps, percussion, background vocals); Paul Epworth (vocals, piano, keyboards, synthesizer, drums, percussion, programming); Jon Green (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, piano, keyboards, vocoder, bass guitar, drums, hand claps, percussion, drum programming, background vocals); Davide Rossi (strings); Thomas White , Gavin Fitzjohn, James Copus (brass); Harry Edwards (bass synthesizer, programming, drum programming); Gerry Morgan (drums); Eddie Serafica (programming, drum programming).
Audio Mixer: Tom Elmhirst.
Recording information: Finyl Vinyl, West Hampstead, UK; Livingston Studios; No.1 Baltic Place; The Church Studios; The Workshop; Walter's Workshops London, UK.
Photographer: Sarah Piantadosi.
Don't ignore the promise of kinetic crackle that lies within the title of Electric Light, James Bay's 2018 sequel to his 2015 debut, Chaos and the Calm. Bay didn't bother with such tacky modern accouterments as electronic rhythms and pitch-shifted vocals on Chaos and the Calm, preferring a burnished, handsome classicism. All of that is thrown out the window on Electric Light, a loose concept album tracing the rise and fall of a romance, all set to modern soul grooves and bright neon hooks. The sonic shift is startling, but Bay grounds his second album with the same sturdy songcraft of Chaos and the Calm, so Electric Light is hardly all flash and style: beneath its glitter and blare, the songs are tight, melodic, and memorable, worming their way into the subconscious with ease. Still, the initial appeal of Electric Light -- and one that doesn't wane with repeated plays -- is how the album is vibrant, colorful, and alive in a way that Bay's debut simply wasn't. It sparkles with digital textures that give plenty of space for Bay to sing with a soulful abandon, a quality that wasn't necessarily evident on Chaos and the Calm either. Admirers of the deliberateness of the debut may find Electric Light a bit too slick and modern, yet that's precisely the album's appeal: Bay never seems like he's pandering; he sounds thrilled that he has a chance to make the kind of layered, genre-bending pop that he wants to make, and listeners may well find that freedom alluring. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Professional Reviews

NME (Magazine) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "It's all accomplished and well-produced -- as an introduction to these sounds, it's absolutely on the money..."