Bluesy English singer/songwriter James Bay crafts moving and evocative folk-pop delivered with a warm, raspy voice. Riding the success of the platinum single "Hold Back the River," his 2015 debut album, Chaos and the Calm, was a breakthrough, soaring to number one in the U.K. and landing in the Top Ten across Europe and Australasia. Incorporating fresh flair, he issued his sophomore effort, Electric Light, in 2018, which peaked at number two. An EP, Oh My Messy Mind, arrived in 2019 featuring "Peer Pressure" with Julia Michaels. Bay's third long-player, 2022's Leap, kept him i...