''Chaos and the Calm'' is the debut studio album by English singer-songwriter

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. It was first released on 15 December 2014 via Republic Records. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Album, while the song " Hold Back the River" was nominated for

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and Bay for

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Critical reception

''Chaos and the Calm'' received mixed reviews from music critics. At

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, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 58, which indicates "mixed or average reviews", based on 9 reviews.

Commercial performance

''Chaos and the Calm'' debuted at number one on the

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on 29 March 2015, having sold over 64,000 copies in the first week of release.

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References

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