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Name .:. Snow Patrol - The Forest Is the Path
Genre : Rock
Source : CDDA
Type .:. Album
Artist : Snow Patrol
Label : Polydor
Titel : The Forest Is the Path
Tracks : 12
Playtime : 50:51
Size : 91,35 MB
Encoder : VBRNEW - LAME3.100 - V0
Quality : VBR kbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo
Bitrate : avg. 251kbps
[ Tracklist ]
01.All 04:19
02.The Beginning 03:31
03.EverythingÆs Here And NothingÆs Lost 04:07
04.Your Heart Home 03:40
05.This Is The Sound Of Your Voice 04:31
06.Hold Me In The Fire 04:00
07.Years That Fall 03:52
08.Never Really Tire 05:54
09.These Lies 04:48
10.What If Nothing Breaks? 03:42
11.Talking About Hope 03:56
12.The Forest Is The Path 04:31
Total 50:51 Min
A lot has happened in Snow PatrolÆs world in the six
years since their last album, Wildness. There was
the small matter of a pandemic, of course; Gary
Lightbody, the bandÆs frontman, was awarded the
freedom of his hometown; Nathan Connolly released a
solo album; and Johnny McDaid reinforced his
reputation as a pop gun for hire by writing more
megahits with the likes of Ed Sheeran and Alicia
Keys. Oh, and they lost two of their founding
members: in 2021 Snow Patrol became a trio after
their original drummer, Jonny Quinn, and bassist,
Paul Wilson, quit for reasons that remain unknown.
Perhaps that shift has been the primary reason for
Snow PatrolÆs newfound sense of reflection. Their
eighth studio album was largely informed, according
to Lightbody, by gaining clarity on past
relationships. By his own admission, the frontman
has ôdone a lot of workö on himself (presumably in
the form of therapy), and his songwriting benefits
from the truthfulness unearthed via his romantic
self-sabotage, although it makes for an odd
intersection between ôbreak-up albumö and ôself-
aware confessionalö.
On The Beginning he addresses an old flame,
crooning, ôIÆm sorry unequivocally/ I just donÆt
know how to love.ö On Hold Me in the Fire he sings
how ôthe love you learn to fight, it keeps you
numbö. On the standout track These Lies he admits
that ôall IÆve got are lies for you, even nowö. ItÆs
heavy going at times, although there is a sense of
redemption in later tracks, such as Talking About
Hope and What if Nothing Breaks?
Musically, this is certainly one of the most
interesting albums that the band has made in years.
LightbodyÆs willingness to lay himself bare makes
songs such as Never Really Tire, weighted down by an
ominous piano riff, terrifyingly tender. The cracks
in his falsetto on These Lies are probably something
the band would have papered over on earlier albums,
when they were arguably more concerned with peddling
the kind of songs that made them stadium-fillers and
festival headliners.
There are a few of those glossy, anthemic moments
here, too, of course, from the pristine All to the
easy-going, toe-tappy indie MOR of Your Heart Home.
Aided and abetted by producer Fraser T Smith, who
helped the trio see the wood û or the forest û for
the trees after their initial attempts at self-
producing the album, there is a clear progression
from self-flagellation to the more hopeful numbers.
The title track, meanwhile, ends on an uplifting
refrain that you can expect to hear at many a
festival next summer.
The lyrical sincerity occasionally topples into
maudlin territory, but much of this album suggests
that Snow Patrol are now willing to venture down the
path less travelled, too.
https://snowpatrol.com/