- indie rock, pop rock
- 58 min
- 11 tracks
- Fiction
A Hundred Million Suns is the fifth studio album by Northern Irish alternative rock band Snow Patrol, released through Fiction Records and Geffen Records on 24 October 2008 in Ireland, 25 October in Australia, 27 October in the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe, and 28 October in the United States.
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Character
Spare, contemporary, grave and character-led.
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
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Metacritic 67/100
- Allmusic4/5 ★
- The A.V. ClubA
- Entertainment WeeklyB+
- The Independent3/5 ★
- Los Angeles Times3/4 ★
- NME4/10
- Pitchfork Media4.9/10
- PopMatters9/10
- Rolling Stone3/5 ★
- Spin3.5/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1If There’s a Rocket Tie Me to It4:20
- 2Crack the Shutters3:21
- 3Take Back the City4:40
- 4Lifeboats4:42
- 5The Golden Floor3:20
- 6Please Just Take These Photos From My Hands4:26
- 7Set Down Your Glass3:44
- 8The Planets Bend Between Us4:18
- 9Engines5:10
- 10Disaster Button3:58
- 11The Lightning Strike: What If This Storm Ends? / The Sunlight Through the Flags / Daybreak16:18
11 tracks, 58 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Snow Patrol
- Label
- Fiction
- Released
- 2008
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- US
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