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8.0
104680
8.0 |
Q
Displays an admirable desire for transformation. Print edition only
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8.0
104686
8.0 |
All Music
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
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8.0
104688
8.0 |
musicOMH
A solid album that presents as an immediate difference to what went before, even if it does not roam too far from the grounds of its creator’s past
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7.7
104722
7.7 |
Earbuddy
It'd be easy to dislike James Bay's new album, but the songs are so good
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7.0
104882
7.0 |
Clash
AlI over the place stylistically, Bay has weaved together a variety of extravagant differences. But is it too much chaos and not enough calm?
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7.0
104687
7.0 |
A.V. Club
This album deserves an open mind
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6.0
104681
6.0 |
Mojo
Bay fares better with the looped, crunchy soul and more nuanced lyrics of Fade Out and Slide. Print edition only
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6.0
104683
6.0 |
NME
It’s all accomplished and well-produced – as an introduction to these sounds, it’s absolutely on the money – but perhaps too scattershot to really gel
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6.0
104684
6.0 |
The Irish Times
This is an undeniably solid progression. Look, we’re as surprised as you are
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6.0
104685
6.0 |
The Independent
A step up for an artist determined to come across more credible
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4.0
104682
4.0 |
The Guardian
Electric Light is an album that wears its commercial ambitions as proudly as its maker once sported his fedora
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