James Bay, winner of last year’s Brit critics’ choice award, casts a long shadow over this year’s anointed, Jack Garratt, and his debut album, Phase – a twitchy, varied record with its trainers in two camps, emoting male pop (a boom genre), and desolate night sounds (ditto).
Bay’s own debut performed none too shabbily last year, selling more copies in the UK than any other released in 2015. On his tail comes Garratt, another hat-wearing young white man from the home counties, operating solo; one who has the added blessing of the BBC Sound of… No 1 spot (Sam Smith and Adele are two previous winners of the debutant double). In the wake of the initial buzz of excitement that greeted Garratt’s first two EPs, there has been a steady trickle of backlash, one culminating in a headline that declared – “Jack Garratt: be prepared for a year of blandness”.
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