Leap James Bay

• 1 Give Me The Reason 03:54
• 2 Nowhere Left To Go 03:24
• 3 Save Your Love 03:22
• 4 Everybody Needs Someone 03:27
• 5 One Life 03:24
• 6 Silent Love 03:35
• 7 Love Don't Hate Me 03:26
• 8 Brilliant Still 03:32
• 9 Right Now 04:11
• 10 We Used To Shine 03:47
• 11 Endless Summer Nights 03:28
• 12 Better 04:02
• Total Runtime 43:32

Info for Leap

James Bay releases his third studio album "Leap". The singer and songwriter has announced his first full-length offering in four years, set to arrive on July 8 via Republic Records. News of the album arrives alongside the release of Bay’s latest single “One Life,” a return to the smooth acoustic roots of his 2014 debut Chaos and the Calm.

“In 2019 I was really struggling. I started writing songs to try and help me deal with fear, anxiety and problems with self-confidence. Feelings that run deep, that I’ve never wanted to share. Somehow, it all turned into some of the most hopeful and uplifting music I have ever made.

I didn’t realize I was only halfway through making my third album when I came across John Burroughs’ quote “leap and the net will appear”. It was in a book about creative rediscovery and those words really sparked something in me. I was reading it because I was lost, feeling worthless. By 2020 I’d written a new batch of sad songs. I recorded them and thought the record was done. Then suddenly the world shut down and I couldn’t tour my new music. All I could do was stay home and write more. That’s when the album really started to take shape. It turns out there is light to be found even in the darkest moments.

I spend a lot of time (too much time) tangled up in negative thoughts. It’s so easy to spiral. But during all that extra time writing, I decided to embrace my sadness rather than fight it and I began to recognize what lifts me up when things get tough. Suddenly I was pushing the boundaries of my writing in ways I never had before. I looked around at the people in my life that love and care about me the most and for the first time ever, I found a way to write from that emotion. I’ve always been afraid to go to those places, be that vulnerable; to say I love you, I need you and thank you in my writing.

It was so freeing to celebrate those people in my life that I love the most, that hold me up when I really need it. They’re the ones who give me the courage to go for it, to dare. When I can’t see the net, they give me the courage to leap.”

James Bay

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James Bay
A soulful singer/songwriter from a small English town with a penchant for crafting moving and evocative folk-pop confections in the vein of Ed Sheeran, Foy Vance, and Ben Howard, James Bay hails from the north Hertfordshire market town of Hitchin. Bay honed his skills regionally, eventually landing high exposure support slots with Tom Odell, John Newman, and Kodaline before inking a record deal with Republic/Universal in 2012. He issued his debut EP, Dark of the Morning, in 2013, with a second extended player, Let It Go, arriving the following year.

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