‘Nobody Like You’, the first song on Alex Bay’s EP Daylight, begins with a ‘1, 2, 3, 4’ in
a gruff male voice, opening the record in a rock ‘n’ roll vein that isn’t
sustained. Indeed, the rest of the EP, 5 songs in total, are more 90s mellow
rock than Babyshambles or Kings of Leon. This is not a straight up criticism of
Daylight, for with Bay’s lack of
pretention and heaps of self-assuredness, at its most powerful the music is
reminiscent of the best of Joseph Arthur or Eagle Eye Cherry, and needs not be
rocky to be good.
Bay is from North Hertfordshire. This is his first
EP and his voice sounds more mature than his 24 years. ‘Nobody Like You’ breaks
earlier than you are expecting. A chorus of other voices rises behind Bay and
it is very quickly great fun. Bay has a confidence in his own sound – even if
at this point a listener isn’t completely sure what that is – which spurs on
feet tapping and head nodding, if not banging. In addition to this, perhaps the first thing
you notice is the quality of the sound production. The songs sound full-bodied
and are as crisp as a bell. As Bay is still relatively young to the music
industry, this level of production is impressive, and allows a listener to
relax, confident that they are in the hands of someone who know what they are
doing.
Woven in and out of the backing chorus in this song
and some of the others, are the strings of a tragic violin, occasionally backed
by two or three more ...
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