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Wall Of Arms

The Maccabees

Wall Of Arms

London indie pop act's second album, made with Arcade Fire producer Markus Dravs

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7.3

Label
Fiction
UK Release date
04/05/2009
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  1. 9.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    Will be one of the better indie-pop-rock offerings of the year and could even propel the Maccabees into the heavyweight division.
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  2. 9.0 |   musicOMH

    An expansive, confident second album that takes The Maccabees from indie also-rans to genuine contenders.
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  3. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    With this record the Maccabees join the Horrors and Jack Peñate as supposedly ""landfill indie"" acts who've come back fighting with far superior second efforts.
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  4. 8.0 |   Clash

    It’s a record that requires the stating of an opinion, and this one reads: much recommended, especially for those who short-changed its makers last time. You really should give them another go.
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  5. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    An album that will give more the more time you give it. It’s expansive without being overblown, meticulous without being tedious, and hints at even greater things come album three
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  6. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    An accomplished album, delivered with passion and feeling, that’s easy to acknowledge as pretty good – to admire, even – but hard to be seriously moved by.
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  7. 6.0 |   The Sunday Times

    The sequence of six tracks from the opener and new single, Love You Better, to No Kind Words is perfect, passionate and sophisticated pop.
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  8. 5.0 |   PopMatters

    Each track in its own right has nothing inherently wrong with it, but put eleven of them together and it’s all a little one-dimensional. It’s difficult to fathom how a producer who has worked with an artists as diverse and inventive as Bjork could put his name to something so vanilla, yet there are enough flashes of inspiration here to suggest The Maccabees could have a bright future.
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