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Chaos And The Calm

James Bay

Chaos And The Calm

Debut album from the Hertfordshire singer songwriter, recorded in Nashville with producer Jacquire King

ADM rating[?]

5.2

Label
Virgin EMI
UK Release date
23/03/2015
US Release date
23/03/2015
  1. 7.0 |   All Music

    Often compared to Ed Sheeran and Ben Howard, Chaos and the Calm shows James Bay has the style and the ability to stand on his own, and it's the work of a new performer with an impressive potential
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  2. 7.0 |   Clash

    An album of genuine intent, full of poignant reflections on romance, hope, fear, the past, the present, and the future
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  3. 6.0 |   Digital Spy

    Chaos And The Calm more often than not lives up to the latter half of it's title and never quite breaks away from it's own self-consciousness
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  4. 6.0 |   Mojo

    Polished and platitude-laden but hugely effective. Print edition only

  5. 6.0 |   Q

    Despite the mature trappings, Bay transmits a recognisably adolescent worldview. Print edition only

  6. 6.0 |   State

    He offers more than the criticisms of being “James Blunt with a hat” but James Bay has a lot more living to do before he writes an album that will stand up of his own accord
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  7. 6.0 |   PopMatters

    The pieces are just too good to resist – Bay has plenty to offer
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  8. 5.0 |   musicOMH

    However well-meaning the record is, there is no getting away from the nagging sense that it is all a bit too safe and predictable
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  9. 4.0 |   Evening Standard

    The perfect soundtrack to a lazy Sunday afternoon selecting jeans in Gap
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  10. 4.0 |   The Guardian

    Pleasant but forgettable, festival-ready anthems
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  11. 4.0 |   The Irish Times

    It’s not bad, really – just terribly, unremittingly ordinary
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  12. 4.0 |   The FT

    Songs are generic pop-rock, proficiently executed, charisma-less
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  13. 4.0 |   The Observer

    Anodyne if ruthlessly efficient. A touch more chaos would not have gone amiss
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