“You’ve got to tip your hat to James Bay: he’s gone for a bold reinvention on album number two and has largely achieved it, even if he doesn’t seem to know quite what he wants to reinvent himself as. The Hitchin singer-songwriter’s 2015 debut ‘The Chaos and the Calm’ went straight to number one, thanks to its unchallenging acoustic ballads (‘Hold Back the River’ has become a wedding fave). He could”
