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| Released | April 22, 1997 [1] | |||
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| Length | 48:42 | |||
| Label | Mercury | |||
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Restraining Bolt is the final studio album by American alternative rock band Radish, released in 1997. [2] Ben Kweller, the group's frontman, was only 15 at the time the album was released. The album was a commercial failure, selling only 13,000 copies by March 1998. [3] [4]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [5] |
| Christgau's Consumer Guide |  [6] |
| Drowned in Sound | 7/10 [7] |
| Entertainment Weekly | B− [8] |
| Los Angeles Times | [9] |
| NME | 5/10 [10] |
| Rolling Stone | [11] |
| USA Today | [12] |
| Vox | 8/10 [13] |
| Wall of Sound | 72/100 [14] |
The Village Voice noted that "Kweller plays the roar that was grunge's revenge for punk like a teen gymnast executes a vault: there's a correct form and you follow it." [15]
Personnel per liner notes. [16]
Radish
Production
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