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A Hundred Million Suns

Snow Patrol

A Hundred Million Suns

Fifth studio album of audience-friendly pop/rock

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5.3

Label
Polydor
UK Release date
27/10/2009
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  1. 9.0 |   PopMatters

    Whether or not this album contains a hit as massive as “Chasing Cars”, it’s a confident, balanced work of mass art with only extremely minor flaws. A record built for dusks and dawns in wide open spaces, wherever they may be found.
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  2. 6.0 |   Rolling Stone

    The band distinguishes itself from the post-Coldplay pack with a flair for arrangements that almost justifies the grandiosity of 16-minute epics.
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  3. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    Snow Patrol have finally done what their harshest critics have been urging them to do for years and set fire to their guitars.
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  4. 6.0 |   Evening Standard

    If it fails, latest tearjerker Crack the Shutters will ensure they at least remain giants.
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  5. 6.0 |   Uncut

    With Coldplay working with Eno, and Keane “gone 1980s”, Snow Patrol are one of the only big bands left still doing what comes naturally.
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  6. 5.0 |   musicOMH

    If they can be persuaded to ditch the arena-friendly anthems and further explore the more experimental side hinted at here, then Snow Patrol could well release a truly great album. In the meantime, this is just another Snow Patrol album.
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  7. 4.9 |   Pitchfork

    A Hundred Million Suns is rife with the sense of a band striving to be taken more seriously. Snow Patrol shouldn't be expected to manufacture mass-appeal pop-rock forever, but the fact remains that the group's talents aren't yet on par with their more artful ambitions.
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  8. 4.0 |   NME

    It’s all so methodically planned that even standout radio-wave surfer ‘Take Back The City’ and producer Jacknife Lee struggle to stamp fresh life into this mega-selling formula.
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  9. 4.0 |   The List

    Nothing very new to report from Glasgow/Belfast’s premier guitar balladeers; just more of the same insipid arena rock we’ve been battered round the ears with for the past few years.
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  10. 4.0 |   The Observer

    Snow Patrol play safe while hinting at ambition.
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