Snow Patrol: A Hundred Million Suns

 

Snow Patrol have finally done what their harshest critics have been urging them to do for years and set fire to their guitars - however, this was for creative, not career-ending reasons.

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Similar experiments (including recording wine glasses filled with water) apparently dominated the recording of A Hundred Million Suns. However the finished album sees the band reverting to base instincts with the chug-paced, heart-tweaking, stadium-size choruses of Take Back the City and Lifeboats. Unit-shifting, radio-clogging business taken care of, they allow themselves freer rein with the urgent, almost hardcore-fast and uncomfortably confessional Disaster Button. This sudden twist is left standing by the 16-minute The Lightning Strike suite, a collision of Philip Glass-type pianos, backwards strings, multitracked choirs and stark vocals, which may be the most avant garde - and most astonishing - thing to come from a stadium rock band this year.

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