James Bay is within the early phases of his subsequent album and is planning to showcase extra of his “guitar taking part in”.
The ‘Maintain Again The River’ hitmaker goes again to his roots for his follow-up to 2022’s ‘Leap’ after having fun with a extra uncooked strategy to taking part in his acoustic guitar as he did on open-mic nights when he was beginning out.
He defined: “With all my heroes, lots of my favorite work of theirs was recorded within the first or second take. It had that form of carefree [nature], ‘Let’s simply do it. Emote and transfer on to the subsequent factor.’ I’m attempting to do this in the meanwhile.”
He continued in an interview with Guitar.com: “[Recording an album] piece by piece by piece? I’ve carried out that rather a lot. I completely respect it, it actually labored for me previously. However recently, I’ve been standing in entrance of a microphone with my acoustic guitar, like I used to do on an open-mic night time. I’m simply singing the tune in. No click on. Nothing. Only a efficiency. And it’s enjoyable! It’s form of releasing to not should form of stress over all of the minute particulars.”
The 32-year-old singer-songwriter insisted the lyrics and the tune itself are nonetheless necessary to him, however he actually needs to hone in on his guitar expertise.
He added: “I do see myself shifting in direction of showcasing extra guitar taking part in in my songs. So possibly [fans’ perceptions] will change as time goes by … however it relies on what the songs dictate.
“The songs are nonetheless crucial factor to me, what the melody is doing, what the lyrics are saying, the efficiency and the supply of the tune. However I’ll all the time get up on stage with a guitar in my hand, so I feel, within the studio, I’m gonna give myself a bit of bit extra to do with the guitar.”
