User ratings in Music are temporarily disabled. More info
- Summary: The second album for the British indie-rock quintet was produced by Markus Dravs.
- Record Label: Fiction
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
- More Details and Credits »
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 7 out of 10
-
Mixed: 3 out of 10
-
Negative: 0 out of 10
-
Wall Of Arms is an expansive, confident second album that takes The Maccabees from indie also-rans to genuine contenders.
-
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.
-
Wall of Arms is 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.
-
Wall of Arms is the meticulously evolved sound of a band aiming to bid to breathe life into British indie.
-
Really, what you’re left with is 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.
-
Q MagazineIt's too easy to mistake them for any number of other bands--Editors, Maximo Park, The Futureheads all spring to mind--but if it's not original, it's still done weell. [Jun 2009, p.125]
-
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.
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 4 out of 4
-
Mixed: 0 out of 4
-
Negative: 0 out of 4
-
PabloLMay 20, 2009I expected a bunch of nice tunes like in the first album, and Maccabees came with a truly, preciously beautiful album!
-
-
MCMay 23, 2009
-
-
AlexFMay 27, 2009
-
-
Aug 5, 2013
-