Snow Patrol

Snow Patrol – Wildness (Deluxe) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:05:24 minutes | 720 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock, Pop Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Polydor Records

Seven years have passed since Snow Patrol’s last album ‘Fallen Empires’. In that time the band have all ventured off into a variety of projects. Gary Lightbody continued his work with his Tired Pony side project with members of Belle and Sebastian, R.E.M, Reindeer Section and Fresh Young Fellows and moved to Los Angeles to begin writing songs for movies and doing a number of high-profile co-writes with Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, Biffy Clyro and One Direction. Taking this extended break from Snow Patrol proved to be a source of inspiration, and writing songs that were not pulled directly from his own psyche helped heal what Lightbody considered to be not so much writer’s block as life block.In the meantime the band have been working on Wildness, Snow Patrol’s 7th studio album.

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Snow Patrol – The Fireside Sessions (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 18:35 minutes | 216 MB | Genre: Indie Rock
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The Fireside Sessions’ is an EP made up of five songs, written in lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The EP was written in collaboration with the band’s fans during a series of streams on Instagram Live dubbed ‘Saturday Songwriters’. In a nod to this partnership, the album is released under the banner of Snow Patrol and the Saturday Songwriters. The EP was produced by Iain Archer and features the single ‘Reaching Out to You’. The band have partnered with the Trussell Trust Charity for the EP and all proceeds from the project will go to the anti-poverty charity. Speaking about how ‘The Fireside Sessions’ came about, frontman Gary Lightbody says, ‘During lockdown I wrote a song each Saturday on Instagram Live. People from all over the world participated and each week there was 4 or 5 thousand people involved over the course of the hour: The Saturday Songwriters. They would suggest chords and lyrics and I would put them all together and add in a few of my own where appropriate.’

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Snow Patrol – Reworked (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:08:38 minutes | 760 MB | Genre: Indie Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Polydor Records

We’re thrilled to announce the full track listing of our upcoming album, Reworked. We’ve been hard at work on the Reworked album and we’re really looking forward to you guys hearing it.

As we’ve been recording the album we’ve discovered new things in some of our older songs and written some new stuff that we’re really excited about. The record contains 3 brand new songs – including I Think of Home – and 13 songs that we’ve reworked. For us, it’s like hearing all our favourite tracks with fresh ears!

It’s been an amazing way to celebrate the journey we’ve had over the past 25 years!

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Snow Patrol – Final Straw (20th Anniversary Edition) (2003/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:13:40 minutes | 1,98 GB | Genre: Rock
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With Final Straw, Snow Patrol mainman Gary Lightbody seems to take all the inspiration he’s gathered from the superstar collaborators in his Reindeer Section project and bundle it into a series of earnest bombastic rock ballads. Producer Garrett Lee deserves credit up-front for expanding the band’s sound even further from the lush symphonic grandeur of When It’s All Over We Still Have to Clear Up. Here, Lightbody and his cohorts traverse the same anthemic territory as Idlewild, with guitars cranked to the max. But where his friend Roddy Woomble of Idlewild soars all over the map vocally, Lightbody prefers the immediate and somewhat indifferent vocal style of another friend, Aidan Moffat of Arab Strap. Indeed, much of Final Straw feels like a middle ground between these two bands, if not for the violins, xylophones, and percussion Lee layers into the mix. Thanks to extra ornamentation, “Gleaming Auction” steps into the swirling realm of Rollerskate Skinny, as wobbly dynamics add interest to punishing guitars. If one gets the sense that Lightbody is shuffling through influences, ranging from all of the above-mentioned bands to Radiohead, Coldplay (“Somewhere a Clock Is Ticking” seems to be a more rocking cousin to Coldplay’s “Clocks”), and even Pink Floyd (on the unmistakably Dark Side of the Moon-influenced “Same”), his mastery of mood and adherence to harmonies make for a consistently coherent and compelling 40 minutes. Highlights include the throbbing cacophony that is “Wow” and “Spitting Games,” which seems like a cascading Wall of Sound feedback-free descendant of My Bloody Valentine. Final Straw is another strong slab of emotion and invigorating energy from a solid band that mixes its influences into an always heady sonic libation.
– Tim DiGravina

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