ARTIST: Snow Patrol
TITLE: When It's All Over We Still Have To Clear Up
LABEL: Jeepster
GENRE: Rock
TIME: 57:39 min
SIZE: 81,6 MB
RIP DATE: Apr-30-2006
RELEASE DATE: Apr-24-2006
WEBSITE: n/a
Track List:
01. Never Gonna Fall In Love Again 02:11
02. Ask Me How I Am 02:35
03. Making Enemies 04:19
04. Black And Blue 03:40
05. Last Ever Lone Gunman 02:43
06. If I'd Found The Right Words To Say 04:47
07. Batten Down The Hatch 03:30
08. One Night Is Not Enough 03:23
09. Chase By... I Don't Know What 02:41
10. On/off 02:40
11. An Olive Grove Facing The Sea 05:18
12. When It's All Over We Still Have To Clear 03:18
Up
13. Make Love To Me Forever 02:55
14. Firelight 03:53
15. In Command Of Cars 04:02
16. Talk To The Tress 02:00
17. Monkey Mobe 01:19
18. Workshop Wear 02:25
Release Notes:
On its second album, Snow Patrol takes a significant
leap forward in terms of artistry and vision. It was
perhaps too easy to write the trio off as a
sub-Belle & Sebastian combo after its debut, what
with the aural similarities to that band and the
fact that they were both on Jeepster. And the music
here still has characteristically lush and gentle
moments -- and still intermittently echoes their
better-known labelmates ("Batten Down the Hatch,"
"On/Off") -- sometimes barely rising above a
whisper, while the subject matter is dour and
brittle as ever. Snow Patrol again dwells on bad
dreams and heartbreak, regrets and one-night stands,
tempering even the few rays of sunlight with wounded
or downbeat thoughts. And on songs like the
nightmarishly paced dirge "If I'd Found the Right
Words to Say," the mood befits the content. But When
It's All Over We Still Have to Clear Up breaks
dramatically and sensationally with the cult of
twee. It is not a subdued or stilted album, either
musically or emotionally, which not only makes the
band's melancholia palatable but also renders it
substantial and genuine rather than affected. The
music is still extremely tuneful, but songs such as
"Never Gonna Fall in Love Again," "Last Ever Lone
Gunman," and "One Night Is Not Enough" are truly
guitar-driven things (occasionally with subtle
electronics) that underscore a determinedness and
passionate vitality often lacking in similar
inclined approaches (including, sometimes, Belle).
When "Black and Blue" abruptly transitions from
barely there falsetto crooning to a grinding,
overdriven guitar assault, it sounds like a call to
arms. Rather than small and insular, the album is
open, grand, and beautiful.