Nein, so ganz haben wir alten Fans Gary Lightbody und den Seinen noch nicht verziehen, dass sie damals vom braven Belle&Sebastian-Folk auf typisch bri...
Fred være med den pæne rockmusik, som i Coldplays version er faldet yderst fantasifuldt ud.
Det er væsentligt mere, end man kan sige om det aktuelle...
A Hundred Million Suns is another middling affair from a by-now-mature pop act, and now might be the time to ask why. That Snow Patrol would achieve w...
Making soaring sissy-rock isn't as easy as it sounds, especially not when it pulls the heartstrings as precisely as Snow Patrol managed on the group's...
Sixteen minute, three-part mini operettas are not Snow Patrol’s forte. The final song on A hundred million suns, The Lightning Strike, comprises three...
"The function-suite was full of people I had never seen before", coos Gary Lightbody in "Disaster Button" with all the intrigue of a nondescript hotel...
2008 is a year in which those three bands often seen by some almost like a kind of unholy triumvirate - Coldplay, Keane, and Snow Patrol - are releasi...
Snow Patrol are all about big: echoing soundscapes; gargantuan guitar crescendos — emotions that can be described only in terms of mythology and astro...
Every now and then, a band offers a solid reminder
of how simple it can be to make good music. Bizarrely diverse instrumentation
(glockenspiel!), easy...
It is time, so it appears, for the 'stadium indie' groups to make some changes. Travis have gone all 'back to basics', Keane have embraced '80s disco,...
In the epic trinity of stadium indie, Snow Patrol are the ghost; lacking both the sheer pomposity to challenge the all-powerful Coldplay and the catch...
It’s a cruel fate (though not necessarily a rare one) for any band to have to watch as one of their weakest songs becomes their biggest hit. This is h...
It's not often you can call an album unambitious when it closes with a 16-minute, three-part epic. But this is Snow Patrol, purveyors of Eyes Open, a ...
Snow Patrol handily manages the challenge of following up breakthrough album "Eyes Open" on "A Hundred Million Suns." The music's inherent dignity ens...
