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Apr 23, 2015Bay is unable to ever quite match the sheer fire of opening stretch of the album, which is a bit of a bummer. And revisiting that whole matter of treading new ground, well it just doesn’t happen. Still, the pieces are just too good to resist--Bay has plenty to offer.
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MojoApr 22, 2015Polished and platitude-laden but hugely effective. [May 2015, p.100]
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Q MagazineApr 1, 2015It's not to say he's workmanlike, but he does the job. [May 2015, p.110]
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Mar 24, 2015Ultimately, Chaos And The Calm is a solid, if unspectacular, first effort from Bay.
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Mar 24, 2015Making music by numbers shouldn’t be this tiring.
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Mar 24, 2015Chaos and the Calm churns out pleasant but forgettable, festival-ready anthems.
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Mar 24, 2015His debut is anodyne if ruthlessly efficient. A touch more chaos would not have gone amiss.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 54 out of 70
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Mixed: 6 out of 70
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Negative: 10 out of 70
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