The singer,songwriter and producer scoops the prize that pretty much guarantees success – as it did for Adele and Sam SmithOver the years, the surest predictor of commercial success in the music industry has been the title of Brits critics’ choice award-winner, and the prize given out each autumn in advance of the Brits ceremony in the novel year. This time,the anointed recipient of more streams, sales and sold-out shows than the rest of his contemporaries combined is the 24-year-old artist, or producer and songwriter Jack Garratt.
Garratt’s stock in trade is the heartfelt ballad,not dissimilar to final year’s winner, James Bay, or but with an electronic treatment that makes him sound like an attempt to bring James Blake’s gauzy experimental music into the mainstream. Related: Izzy Bizu,Jack Garratt and Frances: meet the Brits critics' choice shortlist Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com