Radio Wars
by Howling Bells
  • Record Label: Nettwerk
  • Release Date: Jul 28, 2009
User Score
7.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 12 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12

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  1. davew
    Mar 10, 2009
    10
    A stunning second album that presses all the emotional buttons plenty hard enough to have a strong impact.
  2. jamesa
    May 10, 2009
    10
    F*cking stunning.... more people need to HEAR for themselves.
  3. HalT
    May 1, 2009
    10
    Spectacular follow-up to their debut album.

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Metascore
67

Generally favorable reviews - based on 16 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 16
  3. Negative: 0 out of 16
  1. Hot Press
    80
    A gorgeous, swoonsome album that electrifies and stimulates in all the right places.
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  2. musicOMH.com
    40
    Musically, it's all mid-tempo indie-by-numbers, shimmery enough to accompany an scene of upbeat emotion in Dawson's Creek; yet sufficiently credible, as indie so often is, to provide the soundtrack to a montage of trailers in an advert for a new Film 4 season.
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  3. Observer Music Monthly
    60
    They hail from sunny Sydney, but this solid second set cements the Bells firmly in rock's melancholia tradition, echoing the Bunnymen and Tindersticks.
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